{"id":4198,"date":"2011-09-27T07:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2011-09-27T07:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:48:52","slug":"the-ten-commandments-of-the-american-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments of the American Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamesaltucher\/2011\/09\/27\/the-ten-commandments-of-the-american-religion\/\">James Altucher:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If I stand in the center of Times Square New York City and said something like \u201cMoses didn\u2019t part the Red Sea\u201d or \u201cJesus never existed\u201d everyone would just keep walking around me, ignoring what I said, etc. Whatever, they would be thinking, I have things to do, very important things that have to get done. And this guy is clearly crazy so not worth my time.<\/p>\n<p>But if I stood there and said, \u201cgoing to college is the worst sin you can force your kids to commit\u201d, or \u201cyou should never vote again\u201d or \u201cWorld War II was not a holy war\u201d or \u201cnever own a home again\u201d, I would probably be lynched on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The American Religion is a fickle and false religion. Used to replace the ideologies we (a country of immigrants) escaped from with tenets that don\u2019t withstand the test of time. With random high priests lurking all over the Internet, ready to pounce. Below are some of the tenets of the American Religion. If you think there are more, list them in the comments.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Altucher: If I stand in the center of Times Square New York City and said something like \u201cMoses didn\u2019t part the Red Sea\u201d or \u201cJesus never existed\u201d everyone would just keep walking around me, ignoring what I said, etc. Whatever, they would be thinking, I have things to do, very important things that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}