{"id":11138,"date":"2012-02-22T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:34:19","slug":"ash-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/02\/ash-wednesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"33%\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/capybara.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The capybara kap-i-&#8216;bar-uh, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South and Central America. It is the only species in its genus, which belongs to the family Hydrochoeridae, order Rodentia.<\/p>\n<p>When the Spanish missionaries found the capybara in Brazil during the 16th century, they wrote to the Pope to ask &#8211; there&#8217;s an animal here that&#8217;s scaly but also hairy, spends most of its time in the water but occasionally comes on land; can we classify it as a fish (and thus, the indigenous people could continue to eat it during Lent)?. Not having a clear description of the animal (and not wanting the petitioners to starve), the Pope agreed and declared it to be a fish.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Akin has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.org\/2006\/03\/annual_lent_fig.html\">a good roundup of Lenten information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy also has the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/defensor_fidei\/2007\/02\/ash_wednesday.html\">guidelines for fasting<\/a> from the Code of Canon Law.<\/p>\n<p>Aggie Catholics <a href=\"http:\/\/marysaggies.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/lent-2012.html?spref=tw\" target=\"_blank\">Lent mega-post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/happylent.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"145\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capybara kap-i-&#8216;bar-uh, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South and Central America. It is the only species in its genus, which belongs to the family Hydrochoeridae, order Rodentia.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12158,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}