{"id":16071,"date":"2018-04-24T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16071"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:31:40","slug":"no-bible-no-breakfast-no-bible-no-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/04\/no-bible-no-breakfast-no-bible-no-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"No Bible, No Breakfast! No Bible, No Bed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cNo Bible, No Breakfast! No Bible, No Bed!\u201d is one coined by <a href=\"https:\/\/thereasonforourhope.org\">Father Larry Richards<\/a>. I thinks I heard him mention it a couple of time on his radio show, but didn\u2019t think much about it. When I saw him at our Eucharistic Congress this year the phrase sunk in a little bit more for me.<\/p>\n<p>At first my reaction was \u201cWell this is a good idea for other people, after all I read the Liturgy of the Hours, listen to homiletic podcasts, and have read through the Bible a couple of times.\u201d Surely that\u2019s enough. The more I thought about this the more lame this excuse sounded to me. So I started to take up daily scripture reading again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.\u201d \u2013 The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chesterton is exactly right (as usual) and it is amazing that when you think you know something you start to see it for the first time. What I thought familiar had nuances I realized I only glimpsed at the surface. Intellectually I knew to some extent how polyvalent scripture was. I just needed to relearn that lesson.<\/p>\n<p>I remember sometimes thinking while watching the Journey Home show on EWTN, former Protestant pastors talking about not really noticing a passage before. I was thinking DOH!, but then having to double-DOH! myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cNo Bible, No Breakfast! No Bible, No Bed!\u201d is one coined by Father Larry Richards. I thinks I heard him mention it a couple of time on his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071","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=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16073,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions\/16073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}