{"id":2567,"date":"2008-05-15T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2008-05-15T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T10:00:15","slug":"i-stand-sit-corrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2567","title":{"rendered":"I Stand<\/strike> Sit Corrected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn takes issue with something I wrote yesterday.<\/p>\n

Well, not too <\/em>much issue…:<\/p>\n

(This can be read in a sarcastic, slightly condescending tone, as I have a 1\/2 of a brandy manhattan in me as I write this. I want to make it clear that I am a big fan of Shot In The Dark, Fraters Libertas, MDE, SCSUScholars, PowerLineBlog, Northern Alliance Radio Network, Dennis Prager, KSTP talk radio 1500 (“Direct Connection”) (well, anything pre-2002), Summit Beer, and the Minnesota State Fair.\u00a0 I am not a big fan of John McCain, Ed Schultz or Arne Carlson.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Duly noted!<\/p>\n

\nMitch,<\/p>\n

In today’s “Off the Handle<\/a>,” you write: “In the summer of 1982, I was working at a little country station in Carrington,ND (pop 2,000).\u00a0 It was a Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 I was playing “The Lutheran Hour”, a recorded church service, around noon.”<\/p>\n

The Lutheran Hour is NOT a recorded church service.\u00a0 The Lutheran Hour IS “the world’s longest-running, Christian outreach radio program. It proclaims the message of Jesus Christ to more than 1.2 million people each week over 800 radio stations across North America.”[1]<\/p>\n

A recorded Lutheran church service would have hymns, an order of service including confession & absolution, readings from the Old Testament, New Testament and The Holy Gospel, a recitation of the Apostle’s or Nicene Creed, various prayers including the Lord’s Prayer.\u00a0 This all in addition to a sermon from the pastor.\u00a0 It would actually take about an hour.\u00a0 The Lutheran Hour, despite it’s name, is only 30 minutes long.\u00a0 (Think about that one for a little bit.)<\/p>\n

The Lutheran Hour is, essentially, only the sermon part of a church service. There is an opening musical piece by a grand choir and\/or organ, and a short music piece following the message.\u00a0 There is also a questions\/answer session, and the Pastor leads the listeners in a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. But most of the other hallmarks of a Lutheran church service are missing.<\/p>\n

Being a devoted listener to The Lutheran Hour, and an elder in my church, I just needed to set the record straight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, to be fair (to me) it’s been 26 years since I’ve actually played the show.<\/p>\n

He responded, so I’m gonna guess…he’s…<\/p>\n

Oh, and if the above didn’t say so in so many words, yes, I am a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep.\u00a0 Figured it!<\/p>\n

Thank you.\u00a0 That will be all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I regret the error.<\/p>\n

Not as much as I regretted the original incident…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn takes issue with something I wrote yesterday. Well, not too much issue…: (This can be read in a sarcastic, slightly condescending tone, as I have a 1\/2 of a brandy manhattan in me as I write this. I want to make it clear that I am a big fan of Shot In The Dark, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}