{"id":7227,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/you-cant-go-to-hell-twice\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:09","slug":"you-cant-go-to-hell-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/you-cant-go-to-hell-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Go To Hell Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson played in his first band at age 10.  Already he had a life philosophy.  A year earlier, the Abbott, Texas, native had gotten drunk on beer for the first time and given up on personal salvation.  \u201cI had already [screwed] up more ways than God was going to put up with,\u201d he said later.  \u201cSo I had in mind, the sky\u2019s the limit from here.  I mean, I can\u2019t go to hell twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-five years later, the ponytailed &#8220;outlaw country&#8221; legend is still recording, still playing concerts, still drinking beer, still smoking pot.  Beloved by millions, he is worshipped not just for his direct, tenderhearted music but also as a Zen guru of sorts.  &#8220;Let&#8217;s not plan,&#8221; he once told a lawyer trying to help him manage his fortune.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot more fun if we don\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #5658]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson played in his first band at age 10. Already he had a life philosophy. A year earlier, the Abbott, Texas, native had gotten drunk on beer for the first time and given up on personal salvation. \u201cI had already [screwed] up more ways than God was going to put up with,\u201d he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5114,772,2348,105,5113,5112,5115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227"}],"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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}