{"id":3448,"date":"2026-10-31T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:11:59","slug":"in-the-presence-of-the-divine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/31\/in-the-presence-of-the-divine\/","title":{"rendered":"in the presence of the divine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I met God tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was handing out candy for trick or treat and a group of 5 boys came up to the house on their scooters and bikes. On kids was dressed at Pickachu, another was the ghost-face killer, the third I didn&#8217;t recognize and the fourth didn&#8217;t have a costume.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fifth boy was in regular clothes, but had a sign around his neck on a string.  On the sign, in crude handwriting, was simply written:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>GOD<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And who&#8217;s to say he wasn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I gave him two pieces of candy, just in case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Happy Halloween. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met God tonight. I was handing out candy for trick or treat and a group of 5 boys came up to the house on their scooters and bikes. On kids was dressed at Pickachu, another was the ghost-face killer, the third I didn&#8217;t recognize and the fourth didn&#8217;t have a costume. The fifth boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}