{"id":15086,"date":"2015-03-26T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=15086"},"modified":"2015-03-26T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:07:59","slug":"dull-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2015\/03\/dull-sermons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dull Sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TS <a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/three-takes.html\">reminiscing about &#8220;Stern ol&#8217; teacher Sister Ruth&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How she didn&#8217;t mind dull sermons because she knew someone needed to hear what was being preached. I recall being shocked by that notion; I thought only in terms of me, of course, and couldn&#8217;t imagine \u201cliking\u201d a homily for the sake of another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I read something I really don&#8217;t like. Especially when it makes me see something true. I share his rebellion at the idea, but then at my own selfishness.<\/p>\n<p>As they say &#8220;read the whole thing&#8221;, since his post is an excellent piece of writing (as usual). His blog <a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/three-takes.html\">Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor<\/a> has continued truckin&#8217; on since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TS reminiscing about &#8220;Stern ol&#8217; teacher Sister Ruth&#8221;. How she didn&#8217;t mind dull sermons because she knew someone needed to hear what was being preached. I recall being shocked by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086","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=15086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}