{"id":110,"date":"2009-06-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/06\/raiachu-gesundheit.html"},"modified":"2009-06-04T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T07:00:00","slug":"raiachu-gesundheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/06\/raiachu-gesundheit.html","title":{"rendered":"Raichu! Gesundheit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pokemon_Jets.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/121\/import\/Pokemon_Jets.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I got home from work last night, our 7-year-old rushed up to me. He&#8217;s currently obsessed with Pokemon cards &#8212; which I had thought went out of business long ago but evidently I was wrong. He breathlessly explained, &#8220;Dad, I got a Raichu card today! Pikachu evolved into Raichu!&#8221; Pokemon evolutionary theory? I had to stop myself from laughing, as anyone who follows this blog will know why. Ezra informed me that when one Pokemon creature (in this case, a rabbi-like critter) dies, it comes back to life as a more evolved version with higher, more advanced HP value (I forget what that stands for but it&#8217;s very important).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Where have I heard something strangely like this, but from adults?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">UPDATE:<\/span>\u00a0I loved this line from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pikachu\">Wikipedia&#8217;s article on Pikachu<\/a>: &#8220;In the Pok\u00e9mon Yellow game, using a Thunder Stone on a Pikachu makes it cry and refuse to evolve.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home from work last night, our 7-year-old rushed up to me. He&#8217;s currently obsessed with Pokemon cards &#8212; which I had thought went out of business long ago but evidently I was wrong. 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