{"id":31,"date":"2006-05-10T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:08:11","slug":"an-apt-description-of-greekroman-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/2006\/05\/10\/an-apt-description-of-greekroman-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"An apt description of Greek\/Roman Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don&#8217;t? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands. &#8216;Which prayer shall we answer today?&#8217; they ask one another. &#8216;Let&#8217;s cast the dice! Hope for this one, despair for that one, and while we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s destroy the life of that woman over there by having sex with her in the form of a crayfish!&#8217; I think they pull a lot of their pranks because they&#8217;re bored.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small>Atwood, Margaret. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus<\/span>. 135.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don&#8217;t? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becd.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}