{"id":202,"date":"2001-07-15T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2001-07-15T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austinuu.org\/sermon\/?p=202"},"modified":"2001-07-15T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2001-07-15T16:39:25","slug":"the-users-guide-to-balderdash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/the-users-guide-to-balderdash\/","title":{"rendered":"The user&#039;s guide to balderdash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8600\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-202-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=202-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2001-07-15_A_users_guide_to_balderdash.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Davidson Loehr<\/p>\n<p>July 15, 2001<\/p>\n<p>The text of this sermon is unavailable but you can listen to the sermon by clicking the play button.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I want to take an insight from those great seldom recognized philosophers of our society. Those in the world of professional wrestling. They have a distinction that I think might be useful and helpful in thinking about balderdash.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of professinal wrestling they divide the whole world into two categories which they call &#8220;The Smarts&#8221; and &#8220;The Marks&#8221;. The Marks are those who actually think that professional wrestling is an athletic contest and wonder who will win. The smarts know that what they are seeing is a loosly scripted, highly choreographed physical art form like a sweaty soap opera. Both the smarts and the marks can enjoy the wrestling, but they are enjoying fundamentally different shows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson Loehr July 15, 2001 The text of this sermon is unavailable but you can listen to the sermon by clicking the play button. This morning I want to take an insight from those great seldom recognized philosophers of our society. Those in the world of professional wrestling. They have a distinction that I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,37,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-davidson-loehr","category-former-ministers","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}