{"id":609,"date":"2009-08-23T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabachwani.wordpress.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-08-23T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T05:43:22","slug":"tidbits-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2009\/08\/tidbits-august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>God Almighty!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being born in an inter-religious family, Pumpkin has been exposed to practices and concepts from multiple faiths.\u00a0 However, each night, she says a small prayer to Jesus asking Him to bless all at home.\u00a0 One day, at dinner, I took the oppportunity to test her understanding&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Papa: Pumpkin, how many &#8220;gods&#8221; do you know of?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: There are so many&#8230; Jesus, Krishna, Ganesha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Papa: Actually, there is only one God.\u00a0 He is known by different names, but he is the same.\u00a0 Different people believe in their own version of what God looks like and what he&#8217;s called.\u00a0 But God is one.\u00a0 And he is every one&#8217;s God.\u00a0 Got it?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Yes, Papa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few days later, it was time to check if the concept had really sunk in&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Papa: So, how many &#8220;gods&#8221; do you know of, Pumpkin?<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Papa, there are many many gods like Jesus and Krishna.\u00a0 But, there is one God who is the &#8220;boss&#8221; of all the gods.<\/p>\n<p>Papa: What does the &#8220;boss God&#8221; do?!<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Simple.\u00a0 He makes sure all the other gods do their job well!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 God Almighty! Being born in an inter-religious family, Pumpkin has been exposed to practices and concepts from multiple faiths.\u00a0 However, each night, she says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}