{"id":11966,"date":"2012-01-04T18:27:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2012-01-04T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T23:31:05","slug":"catholic-bloggers-share-their-top-book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/01\/catholic-bloggers-share-their-top-book-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bloggers Share Their Top Book Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Fulwiler posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/jennifer-fulwiler\/catholic-bloggers-share-their-top-book-recommendations?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2012-01-4\">a list of book recommendations from many Catholic bloggers<\/a> including myself. \u00a0The recommendations look quite excellent having read most of them and adding to my wish list the others.<\/p>\n<p>One was for a book I read last month:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Marc Barnes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/\">Marc Barnes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<em><a title=\"Love In The Ruins, The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312243111\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=buttafly-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312243111\">Love In The Ruins, The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Walker Percy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because Walker Percy is the man and perhaps the most undervalued Catholic writer of our time. Because everyone needs a little existential crisis. Because Catholics need to balance every book on a Saint with a book on wonderfully pathetic sinner. Because this book will make you laugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/jennifer-fulwiler\/catholic-bloggers-share-their-top-book-recommendations?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2012-01-4#ixzz1iXFE3UJU\">e<\/a>rtainly agree. \u00a0While I really love Walker Percy, I found this book especially hysterical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Fulwiler posts a list of book recommendations from many Catholic bloggers including myself. \u00a0The recommendations look quite excellent having read most of them and adding to my wish list&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}