{"id":2623,"date":"2007-06-30T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:55:55","slug":"deciding-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Deciding against it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RobA1SjpbvI\/AAAAAAAAA-E\/dMStf__wI98\/s1600-h\/deciding+against+it.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/RobA1SjpbvI\/AAAAAAAAA-E\/dMStf__wI98\/s400\/deciding+against+it.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is for Chris G-Z: why did I decide against converting to Roman Catholicism? Well, there are lots of areas that we might discuss, but there&#8217;s only one big and determinative issue: I came to the conclusion that it wasn&#8217;t what God wanted me to do. I&#8217;m quite certain if I&#8217;m wrong on that then He&#8217;ll let me know(!) but for now I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m where God wants me to be, doing what God wants me to do. That may change &#8211; in fact, if things with the Church of England really go pear-shaped then it probably will change &#8211; but for now I have no anxiety of soul on the question of denomination.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for Chris G-Z: why did I decide against converting to Roman Catholicism? Well, there are lots of areas that we might discuss, but there&#8217;s only one big and determinative issue: I came to the conclusion that it wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Gj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}