{"id":1288,"date":"2009-04-21T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2009-04-21T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:31:14","slug":"why-i-dont-stay-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Why I don't stay for Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt would appear that it is a common thing for American Chinese Churches to have a whole meal after Sunday Worship Services. Usually at a very low cost if not free (some churches would have it free for first comers).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis concept of course, is to attract more people, however one wishes to put it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis practice is so strongly rooted in this church culture that if one doesn't stay with any plausible reason, one is considered anti-social.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut then what is social? Is social talking about vain subjects? I would rather take a lazy nap than talking about &quot;How are you...What's up...You know computer-Wah...you sing in Oratorio-Wah...want to hold my hands&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNay, please, I have better things to do. Now that I can leave at will without any problem. Praise be to God. In my previous church, it would be a trouble if I leave on my own as I would have to walk to the train station and many would want to arrange rides for me or I would be trapped with vain chatters in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that it is a common thing for American Chinese Churches to have a whole meal after Sunday Worship Services. Usually at a very low cost if not free (some churches would have it free for first comers). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}