{"id":551,"date":"2007-01-25T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=551"},"modified":"2007-01-25T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:47:39","slug":"how-many-souls-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"How Many Souls Can Dance on the Head of a Pin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I annoyed not a few professors in seminary by bringing up edge cases in systematic theology, especially in thinking about bodies and souls.  When cloning was denounced as theologically dangerous, I said I had two aunts who were clones &#8212; identical twins, in fact.  Then I brought up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abby_and_Brittany_Hensel\">Abby and Brittany Hensel<\/a>.  These charming girls are basically two heads on one body.  Featured on Oprah and in Life magazine a decade ago, they&#8217;re now <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/omnibrain\/2007\/01\/conjoined_twin_video.php\">teenagers<\/a>.  I chuckle when I remember those theology classes, especially as it appears that the girls attend a Christian school.  There&#8217;s lots of scope for juvenile humour here, especially as the twins share a single reproductive system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I annoyed not a few professors in seminary by bringing up edge cases in systematic theology, especially in thinking about bodies and souls. When cloning was denounced as theologically dangerous, I said I had two aunts who were clones &#8212; identical twins, in fact. Then I brought up Abby and Brittany Hensel. These charming girls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Many Souls Can Dance on the Head of a Pin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}