{"id":359,"date":"2008-04-30T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=359"},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:44:17","slug":"age-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/age-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/zenobia_joy\/1973475813\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2407\/1973475813_c49c75703b_m.jpg\" alt=\"cross by zenobia_joy on flickr\" title=\"cross by zenobia_joy on flickr\" \/><\/a>My wife and daughter are catholic. I am not. I am nothing &#8212; in a spiritual sense.<\/p>\n<p>At lunch, my wife explained to me that my daughter is at <em>the age of reason<\/em>; the threshold where people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/encyclopedia\/view.php?id=9876\">are deemed to begin to be morally responsible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating concept. If true, my child is now accountable for her acts in some profound sense a younger child is not. She can be generous,  indifferent, self-absorbed, cruel and kind. She is capable of guilt, courage and hope. <\/p>\n<p>Second grade was hard enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and daughter are catholic. I am not. I am nothing &#8212; in a spiritual sense. At lunch, my wife explained to me that my daughter is at the age of reason; the threshold where people are deemed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/age-of-reason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-childhood","tag-morality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/1973475813_c49c75703b_m.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}