{"id":3710,"date":"2007-08-01T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/08\/01\/eight-things\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T09:59:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:59:40","slug":"eight-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/08\/eight-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysterium-fidei.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/meme-8-things-about-nick.html\">Paul VI tagged me<\/a> with the list 8 facts\/habits about themselves meme.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first thing I do when I wake up is to read the Liturgy of the Hours, pray the Rosary, and try to spend some time in contemplative prayer. I do this first thing because I know otherwise I will keep putting it off and then it won&#8217;t have prayed at all. Plus I know if I turned on my computer first thing in the morning I know for sure I would never get to prayer.<\/li>\n<li>I tend to read three or four books at a time. One for morning spiritual reading, another one for evening spiritual reading or theology, some fiction to end the day, and another book of fiction in my iPod that I listen to while driving and at other times.<\/li>\n<li>I would like to rename my blog to the Contemplative Jester one day, but despite my prayer time and spiritual reading I figure at my current pace this will happen sometime after we actually have flying cars.<\/li>\n<li>I really like Evelyn Waugh, but I have never been able to finish Brideshead Revisited.<\/li>\n<li>My first internet connection was a shell account and my first internet site back in 1995 was a Access database driven freeware site for software called &quot;Rage against the Cash Machine.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>I have never had or used an Apple computer. My path to geekdom was Commodore Plus 4, Commodore 64, Amiga, and then PCs starting from an IBM XT. I am not anti-Apple and certainly wouldn&#8217;t mind having one of their new machines.<\/li>\n<li>Even though I am a major SF fan I have never been to a convention. Though I have met Frank Herbert and Frederick Pohl.<\/li>\n<li>I failed an eye exam on purpose when I was a kid since I thought glasses were cool. My parents never did understand the &quot;miraculous&quot; cure of my vision later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul VI tagged me with the list 8 facts\/habits about themselves meme. The first thing I do when I wake up is to read the Liturgy of the Hours, pray&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","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=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}