{"id":456,"date":"2003-01-03T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2003\/01\/03\/missionaries-peanuts-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2003-01-03T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2003-01-03T18:30:56","slug":"missionaries-peanuts-and-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/missionaries-peanuts-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries, peanuts, and Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my dream, I was a missionary again. For some reason, I was working with a bunch of old coworkers from my Claris\/FileMaker days. One of their sons had just achieved some rank in the Jehovah's Witness youth program (I don't know whether such a thing exists, and I don't remember for sure, but that coworker may not have been a Jehovah's Witness in waking life, though he was active in some church).On the shelf in front of me were some items related to the various ranks or stages that a person goes through in the program. One was food that they were allowed to eat. For the stage that the son had just reached, there was a box of peanuts or cashews or something.<\/p>\n<p>I surprised everyone by, as a \"Mormon\"* missionary, asking a question about the Jehovah's Witness program (they didn't think I'd have any interest in anyone else's religion). My first question was to another of my co-workers who I thought might be a Jehovah's Witness, but he wasn't, so I found out who the other Jehovah's Witness there was and asked him.<\/p>\n<p>* NOTE: \"Mormon\" is a nickname The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also nicknamed the \"LDS church\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my dream, I was a missionary again. For some reason, I was working with a bunch of old coworkers from my Claris\/FileMaker days. One of their sons had just achieved some rank in the Jehovah's Witness youth program (I don't know whether such a thing exists, and I don't remember for sure, but that...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/missionaries-peanuts-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}