{"id":2107,"date":"2013-10-30T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:00:48","slug":"rapture-practice-my-one-way-ticket-to-salvation-a-true-story-by-aaron-hartzler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Rapture Practice: My One-Way Ticket to Salvation [a true story] by Aaron Hartzler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rapture<\/p>\n

Aaron Hartzler credits his acting ability to all the practice he got at home.\u00a0 After all, having questions about his faith and his sexuality weren\u2019t exactly encouraged by his strict, Christian parents.\u00a0 If he wanted to stay out of trouble, he had to pretend to believe what they believed and to behave as they thought he should.\u00a0 As a child, he found it easy to get swept up in the excitement over the thought that Jesus might come down and take them all away to heaven at a moment\u2019s notice.\u00a0 As a teen, though, Aaron had begun to enjoy his time on Earth too much to hope for the rapture.\u00a0 He also began to question many of the strict rules his parents upheld in the name of religion \u2014 especially the rules against listening to popular music and going to the movies.\u00a0 He began sneaking around and breaking rules and, what started off as smaller\/more innocent lies, soon became intricately planned deceptions and full-fledged rebellion.\u00a0 Though I grew up attending church, my Presbyterian upbringing was very liberal and I found it fascinating [and sometimes horrifying] to see how vastly different it could have been even though his religion was based on the same holy book as mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Hartzler credits his acting ability to all the practice he got at home.\u00a0 After all, having questions about his faith and his sexuality weren\u2019t exactly encouraged by his strict, Christian parents.\u00a0 If he wanted to stay out of trouble, he had to pretend to believe what they believed and to behave as they thought … Continue reading Rapture Practice: My One-Way Ticket to Salvation [a true story] by Aaron Hartzler<\/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":[3,6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}