{"id":912,"date":"2009-05-12T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-05-29T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T17:05:05","slug":"the-teachings-of-carl-on-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/05\/the-teachings-of-carl-on-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teachings of Carl on Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Potentially<\/a>Vice<\/em> magazine has just run a blog post of mine, an invitation into the world and works of Carl Johnson<\/a>, whom I visited last month in his hometown of Thornton, IL. He’s a man of cosmic imagination who doesn’t get on well with his neighbors. Check out the pamphlet I published in 2006 of one of his ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we stood together in the backyard, he revealed to me that his deterioration isn’t entirely because of natural causes. The people in town have turned against him<\/a>, spreading terrible rumors, and worse. A self-taught “Christian Pastor,” Carl insists he has done nothing wrong. There is a bullet hole in a second floor window. But he can’t tell me any more for a few months yet.<\/p>\n

“Lately I’ve been reading a lot from the last weeks of Jesus’s life,” he told me. “You have to admit there are a lot of parallels.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good start, and there’ll be more to come on Carl, as well as, hopefully, more adventures in Viceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Potentially<\/a>Vice<\/em> magazine has just run a blog post of mine, an invitation into the world and works of Carl Johnson<\/a>, whom I visited last month in his hometown of Thornton, IL. He’s a man of cosmic imagination who doesn’t get on well with his neighbors. Check out the pamphlet I published in 2006 of one of his ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we stood together in the backyard, he revealed to me that his deterioration isn’t entirely because of natural causes. The people in town have turned against him<\/a>, spreading terrible rumors, and worse. A self-taught “Christian Pastor,” Carl insists he has done nothing wrong. There is a bullet hole in a second floor window. But he can’t tell me any more for a few months yet.<\/p>\n

“Lately I’ve been reading a lot from the last weeks of Jesus’s life,” he told me. “You have to admit there are a lot of parallels.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good start, and there’ll be more to come on Carl, as well as, hopefully, more adventures in Viceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,76,22,75],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-friendship","tag-prophecy","tag-saints","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}