{"id":13980,"date":"2013-03-21T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2013-03-21T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T00:04:05","slug":"grumpy-long-before-it-was-a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/03\/grumpy-long-before-it-was-a-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy long before it was a meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GrumpyJerome\"<\/a><\/p>\n

God\u2019s angry man, His crotchety scholar
\nWas Saint Jerome,
\nThe great name-caller
\nWho cared not a dime
\nFor the laws of Libel
\nAnd in his spare time
\nTranslated the Bible.
\nQuick to disparage
\nAll joys but learning
\nJerome thought marriage
\nBetter than burning;
\nBut didn\u2019t like woman\u2019s
\nPainted cheeks;
\nDidn\u2019t like Romans,
\nDidn\u2019t like Greeks,
\nHated Pagans
\nFor their Pagan ways,
\nYet doted on Cicero all of his days.<\/p>\n

A born reformer, cross and gifted,
\nHe scolded mankind
\nSterner than Swift did;
\nWorked to save
\nThe world from the heathen;
\nFled to a cave
\nFor peace to breathe in,
\nPromptly wherewith
\nFor miles around
\nHe filled the air with
\nFury and sound.
\nIn a mighty prose
\nFor Almighty ends,
\nHe thrust at his foes,
\nQuarreled with his friends,
\nAnd served his Master,
\nThough with complaint.
\nHe wasn\u2019t a plaster sort of a saint.<\/p>\n

But he swelled men\u2019s minds
\nWith a Christian leaven.
\nIt takes all kinds
\nTo make a heaven.<\/p>\n

From “Times Three” by Phyllis McGinley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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