{"id":6327,"date":"2015-06-01T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:54:26","slug":"an-occasion-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6327","title":{"rendered":"An occasion of crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an old theological term,<\/strong> “an occasion of sin,” which (if I understand it correctly) means to place temptation in someone’s path. I hope I haven’t been an occasion of crime in this blog.<\/p>\n

Last month I posted a story<\/a>, and a picture, about my visit with the Viking Age Club to historic Ness Church, Litchfield, Minnesota. I told how the first victims of the Dakota War of 1862 are buried there, and that local legend says the place is haunted.<\/p>\n

Four days after I posted my story, according to this article from the Minneapolis City Pages newspaper<\/a>, four people were arrested for breaking into the church and vandalizing it, as well as the monument.<\/p>\n

I hope they didn’t learn about it here.<\/p>\n

Probably not. We cater to a pretty high class of reader at Brandywine Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an old theological term, “an occasion of sin,” which (if I understand it correctly) means to place temptation in someone’s path. I hope I haven’t been an occasion of crime in this blog. Last month I posted a story, and a picture, about my visit with the Viking Age Club to historic Ness Church, … Continue reading An occasion of crime?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[577,621,1064,1678,1996],"class_list":["post-6327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-press","category-uncategorized","tag-cory-zurowski","tag-dakota-war-of-1862","tag-ghosts","tag-litchfield-mn","tag-ness-church"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}