{"id":5200,"date":"2021-12-23T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:36:03","slug":"puzzling-a-medieval-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/puzzling-a-medieval-quandary\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling a Medieval Quandary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many angels can dance on a pin?<\/p>\n<p>It depends, my friends, it depends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It depends if it is a pen or a pin.<\/p>\n<p>It depends if we&rsquo;re talking about angels or angles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But let us assume it is a pin.<\/p>\n<p>And let us assume we&rsquo;re talking about angels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It still depends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It depends: what size is the pin?<\/p>\n<p>It depends: are the angels fat or slim?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It depends: on its side or its ends?<\/p>\n<p>It depends: if the end, which end?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It depends: is it calm or is there wind?<\/p>\n<p>It depends: are the angels pure or have sinned?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You see, my friends, it really depends,<\/p>\n<p>So we really don&rsquo;t know in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By James D. Rapp, published in his book, <\/em>And Your Neighbor As Yourself<em> (2019)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many angels can dance on a pin? It depends, my friends, it depends. &nbsp; It depends if ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,182],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}