{"id":17813,"date":"2022-02-17T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:56:52","slug":"why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/02\/17\/why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do bad things happen to good people?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW02172022-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"423\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW02172022-4.jpg\" alt=\"Why do bad things happen to good people?\" class=\"wp-image-17814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW02172022-4.jpg 453w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AW02172022-4-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why do bad things happen to good people?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a major problem for people who believe in a caring god. The theological term for this is &#8220;theodicy&#8221;, and we have lots of material on it. Here&#8217;s one classic book on the subject for starters: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a major problem for people who believe in a caring god. The theological term for this is &#8220;theodicy&#8221;, and we have lots of material on it. Here&#8217;s one classic book on the subject for starters: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-theodicy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}