{"id":312,"date":"2008-04-22T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/not-the-rock-of-ages.html"},"modified":"2008-04-22T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:56:00","slug":"not-the-rock-of-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2008\/04\/not-the-rock-of-ages.html","title":{"rendered":"NOT THE ROCK OF AGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6KNAhjHmI\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/zj3zkHFfsoM\/s1600-h\/b74ed79d3edc84b85a4297e7469be2af.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6KNAhjHmI\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/zj3zkHFfsoM\/s400\/b74ed79d3edc84b85a4297e7469be2af.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6KAghjHlI\/AAAAAAAAAk0\/fLlrldiYduU\/s1600-h\/b143320aea592b39408afabd5e732d0a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6KAghjHlI\/AAAAAAAAAk0\/fLlrldiYduU\/s400\/b143320aea592b39408afabd5e732d0a.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>You know how your past comes back to haunt you.   Well,  ZonePerfect took my picture while I was in Jacksonville, and then posterized me on three make believe album covers.  Here they are.  Flattering is not the word I would use for these pictures,  but they say humility is good for the soul (but what about humiliation!).<\/p>\n<p>Me personally I would rather be posterized on an album cover like Dark Side of the Moon, or Hotel California, or Sgt. Peppers.   But it is what it is&#8230;.. all because I was once a rock and roller, and now I&#8217;m a Holy Roller \ud83d\ude42  The one closest to the truth is the bottom one, as I did indeed use to have long hair and played folk rock, and rock and roll for fun.  As my fellow Tar Heel James Taylor once said &#8220;Hey Mister that&#8217;s me up on the Jukebox.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6JjwhjHkI\/AAAAAAAAAks\/03gBOt5gXGo\/s1600-h\/33a525ada230542a42b1fde2b54f4a23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SA6JjwhjHkI\/AAAAAAAAAks\/03gBOt5gXGo\/s400\/33a525ada230542a42b1fde2b54f4a23.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how your past comes back to haunt you. Well, ZonePerfect took my picture while I was in Jacksonville, and then posterized me on three make believe album covers. Here they are. 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