{"id":2061,"date":"2009-02-24T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/02\/24\/ash-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T04:09:09","slug":"ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/02\/ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"33%\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"33%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/capybara.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"articles\">The capybara kap-i-&#8216;bar-uh, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South and Central America. It is the only species in its genus, which belongs to the family Hydrochoeridae, order Rodentia. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"><span class=\"post\"><span class=\"post\">When the Spanish missionaries found the capybara in Brazil during the 16th century, they wrote to the Pope to ask &#8211; there&#8217;s an animal here that&#8217;s scaly but also hairy, spends most of its time in the water but occasionally comes on land; can we classify it as a fish (and thus, the indigenous people could continue to eat it during Lent)?. Not having a clear description of the animal (and not wanting the petitioners to starve), the Pope agreed and declared it to be a fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Jimmy Akin has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.org\/2006\/03\/annual_lent_fig.html\">a good roundup of Lenten information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Jimmy also has the <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/defensor_fidei\/2007\/02\/ash_wednesday.html\">guidelines for fasting<\/a> from the Code of Canon Law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I have also changed one of my top graphics to this. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/happylent.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"145\" border=\"1\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Marcel LeJeune also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/marysaggies.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/lent-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\" >solid Lenten FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Earlier this week I noticed the most ironic Facebook group ever.  Giving up Facebook for Lent.  Now I am not giving up blogging\/social networking during Lent.  I am giving up real world friends for lent instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I have an impressive list of things I am giving up for Lent to cure my pride. No doubt more impressive than yours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I pray that all my readers will have grown closer to Christ by the end of Lent. Please pray that I will do likewise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capybara kap-i-&#8216;bar-uh, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South and Central America. It is the only species in its genus, which belongs to the family Hydrochoeridae, order Rodentia.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}