{"id":2001,"date":"2006-10-12T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/12\/dreher-goes-orthodox\/"},"modified":"2006-10-12T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T20:50:11","slug":"dreher-goes-orthodox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/dreher-goes-orthodox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreher goes Orthodox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/crunchycon\/2006\/10\/orthodoxy-and-me.html\">Beliefnet<\/a> Rod Dreher October 12, 2006<\/p>\n<p><em>Orthodoxy and me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I apologize for this very long post, but it&#8217;s time to clear something up: yes, I am now a communicant of the Orthodox Church, and have been (along with my family) for a couple of months. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I did not intend to make this public until the end of this month, to honor a personal and professional obligation that, the violation of which stood to hurt some innocent people. This is why I&#8217;ve taken care since the day I entered Orthodoxy not to claim I am Catholic in writings here, and not to rise to the bait of certain people in the comboxes who have demanded that I declare myself. Though I&#8217;ve wanted to get this out there, and not to deceive readers, I had an obligation to keep this to myself until month&#8217;s end, for an important reason I can&#8217;t really discuss. But now I am forced to reveal all early. Why? Because a certain malicious reader, a perfect stranger and petty little Catholic Prufrock named Jonathan Carpenter, who is unhealthily preoccupied with me nearly to the point of cyberstalking, troubled himself to write a letter to a priest at my parish asking about my ecclesial affiliation &#8212; and when he received his answer, undertook to publicize it.<\/p>\n<p>So, here we are. I apologize to readers who feel deceived or betrayed. <\/p>\n<p>That was not my intent; my intent was to honor a prior obligation, whose terms were soon to end anyway. I only now have to give you the long explanation two weeks early. What follows will be lengthy, but it will be all I intend to say about this matter. I know that the comboxes will be filled with discussion, much of it spiteful and vitriolic, and that there&#8217;s nothing I can do about that, except refuse to join it. But here is how I ended up where I am today.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/crunchycon\/2006\/10\/orthodoxy-and-me.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beliefnet Rod Dreher October 12, 2006 Orthodoxy and me I apologize for this very long post, but it&#8217;s time to clear something up: yes, I am now a communicant of the Orthodox Church, and have been (along with my family) for a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}