{"id":7873,"date":"2003-06-02T13:11:47","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/02\/kernels-of-truth\/"},"modified":"2003-06-02T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T18:11:47","slug":"kernels-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/kernels-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernels of truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here are excerpts from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=8188368&#038;BRD=2259&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=455154&#038;rfi=6\">interesting graduation speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Monsignor John J. Bendik, pastor of St. John&#8217;s Church and vice president of the Board of Pastors of Seton Catholic, delivered the homily during liturgy and reminded the graduates of their transformation &#8211; physically, intellectually, spiritually and socially &#8211; throughout the past four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Monsignor Bendik compared the graduates&#8217; situation to a bag of popping corn. While some kernels are transformed into popcorn, others remain apparently unchanged by the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He advised graduates that even the unpopped kernels, having a purpose, can be planted and will eventually produce a plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">The following would probably give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nihilobstat.blogspot.com\/\">Nihil Obstat<\/a> a coronary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Monsignor Bendik lightheartedly referred to his &#8220;special prayer&#8221; and &#8220;motto,&#8221; telling the graduates, &#8220;Be what you is, because if you be what you ain&#8217;t, you ain&#8217;t what you is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are excerpts from an interesting graduation speech. Monsignor John J. Bendik, pastor of St. John&#8217;s Church and vice president of the Board of Pastors of Seton Catholic, delivered the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873","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=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}