{"id":5203,"date":"2014-07-24T21:17:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2014-07-24T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:47:49","slug":"religious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=5203","title":{"rendered":"Religious People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom and I went up to Nappanee yesterday to get a part for our auger that self-destructed during wheat harvest.  I needed gas, so we swung into the first station in Nappanee.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised when I went in to get a refreshing fountain pop to hear what seemed to be Indian hip-hop music blaring.  Then a young man wearing a turban and a full beard took my money.  I was again surprised to see a Sikh in downtown Nappanee, but it explained the music.<\/p>\n<p>We got back into the truck and waited for an Amish guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  with a hat and a full beard<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to pass by on Highway 6 so we could continue on.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think a thing about it, until tonight when I was relating to Debbie the amusing anecdote of a Sikh in Nappanee, and she said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you see?  The Amish guy and the Sikh are the same.  They&#8217;re both following their religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I was as smart as Debbie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom and I went up to Nappanee yesterday to get a part for our auger that self-destructed during wheat harvest. I needed gas, so we swung into the first station in Nappanee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-and-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}