{"id":8155,"date":"2003-03-14T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/14\/penny-pinching-priest\/"},"modified":"2003-03-14T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2003-03-15T02:46:18","slug":"penny-pinching-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/penny-pinching-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Pinching Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Looking at Bill Seefeldt, people figured the old Catholic priest must be just<br \/>\nscraping by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He lived in a modest, cluttered cabin on Prior Lake bought in 1948 for $1,800.<br \/>\nHe wore thrift-store clothes until they were threadbare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">While grocery shopping, he armed himself with coupons, debating what he could<br \/>\nafford. When his washing machine broke and he talked of hand-washing his clothes,<br \/>\nShakopee appliance dealer Jim Halloran felt so sorry for &quot;the sweet old<br \/>\nguy&quot; that he gave him a $500 washer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Last year, when Seefeldt died at 89, he left the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis $4.6 million.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/614\/3754826.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at Bill Seefeldt, people figured the old Catholic priest must be just scraping by. He lived in a modest, cluttered cabin on Prior Lake bought in 1948 for $1,800.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}