{"id":2902,"date":"2004-05-14T21:08:39","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2004-05-14T21:08:39","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T21:08:39","slug":"what-is-it-with-nc-columnists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS IT WITH NC COLUMNISTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hendersondispatch.com\/articles\/2004\/05\/14\/news\/youth\/youth01.txt\">lede<\/a> says it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One thing that has never sat well with me is the concept of home-schooling children for religious reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The column is one big anecdote about how the writer survived the g-schools with his faith intact, and, therefore, your kids should, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, attending school forces children to regularly face the sinful influences that any good parent wants children to avoid. And, yes, there&#8217;s a good chance that these children will even engage in some of these sinful practices while they are young. But no child can be completely without sin, despite the best efforts of overprotective parents. If children are taught at home how to be good Christians, when they are old, they will not depart from those teachings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a verse, too: &#8220;Do not test the Lord your God&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;<i>Deut. 6:16<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lede says it all: One thing that has never sat well with me is the concept of home-schooling children for religious reasons. The column is one big anecdote about how the writer survived the g-schools with his faith intact, and, therefore, your kids should, too. Yes, attending school forces children to regularly face the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}