{"id":1614,"date":"2007-06-21T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/21\/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:38:12","slug":"conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brave Jehovah&#8217;s Witness has engaged with me in the comments of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/10\/jehovahs-witnesses-claiming-to-follow-the-christ\/\">Following the Christ post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Snowhoney expresses the usual views in the usual ways, so it&#8217;s a good example of the trained mindflow of a practicing Jehovah&#8217;s Witness. Sometimes JW comments are so emotive or hateful that I hesitate to claim that they really represent the views or practices of JWs in general, but this is good example of someone who is devout in the JW way.<\/p>\n<p>I say that Snowhoney (I&#8217;m assuming a &#8220;she&#8221;) is brave because normally JWS are not allowed to read anything that is at all critical of the Watchtower Society. Her engagement is, perhaps, a kind of witnessing, although (like my own responses) it seems intended for other readers than myself. So &#8211; let&#8217;s have an audience. If any of the topics under discussion interest you, weigh in with your own views. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brave Jehovah&#8217;s Witness has engaged with me in the comments of the Following the Christ post. Snowhoney expresses the usual views in the usual ways, so it&#8217;s a good example of the trained mindflow of a practicing Jehovah&#8217;s Witness. Sometimes JW comments are so emotive or hateful that I hesitate to claim that they really represent the views or practices of JWs in general, but this is good example of someone who is devout in the JW way. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/conversation-with-a-jehovahs-witness\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,8,27],"tags":[6160,53,3958,506],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-toys","category-jehovahs-witnesses","category-religion","category-virushead","tag-jehovahs-witnesses","tag-jw","tag-snowhoney","tag-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}