{"id":4633,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-importance-of-rules\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","slug":"the-importance-of-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-importance-of-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of rules:<\/p>\n<p>Cathy and her boyfriend, Irving, who is a golfing fanatic, are on vacation.<br \/>\nThey are on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy: Here&#8217;s your ball, Irving!  It was over in the weeds!<br \/>\nIrving: AACK!  You moved the ball!  You&#8217;re not allowed to move the ball, Cathy!<br \/>\nCathy: Who cares?  We&#8217;re the only ones out here!<br \/>\nIrving: It&#8217;s against the rules!  You can&#8217;t break the rules!!<br \/>\nCathy: You hate rules!<br \/>\nIrving: But this is a SPORT!  It&#8217;s no fun without rules!  It&#8217;s pointless unless everyone plays by the exact same rules!<\/p>\n<p>As Irving walks away, Cathy follows after, writing in her notebook, &#8220;To do after vacation.  Get relationships declared a &#8220;sport&#8221; and print up rule book for all the men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>=============================<br \/>\n1. San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 1991, 8D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of rules: Cathy and her boyfriend, Irving, who is a golfing fanatic, are on vacation. They are on the golf course. Cathy: Here&#8217;s your ball, Irving! It was over in the weeds! Irving: AACK! You moved the ball! You&#8217;re not allowed to move the ball, Cathy! Cathy: Who cares? We&#8217;re the only ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4034,4036,4035,2889,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}