{"id":24996,"date":"2009-10-14T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/how-tall-are-your-doctrinal-wa\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T17:47:25","slug":"how-tall-are-your-doctrinal-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/how-tall-are-your-doctrinal-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"How tall are your doctrinal walls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/playground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"playground.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/playground-thumb-250x160-4788.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"160\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>G. K. Chesterton once wrote, &#8220;Catholic doctrine<br \/>\nand discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. We might<br \/>\nfancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the<br \/>\nsea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff&#8217;s edge they could fling<br \/>\nthemselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of<br \/>\nnurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the<br \/>\nprecipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they<br \/>\nwere all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had<br \/>\nceased.&#8221; <i>Orthodoxy<\/i> Ch. 9<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. K. Chesterton once wrote, &#8220;Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff&#8217;s edge they could fling themselves into every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/how-tall-are-your-doctrinal-wa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How tall are your doctrinal walls?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2212,2023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}