{"id":4113,"date":"2007-01-12T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/01\/12\/cold-and-hot-catholics\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T03:30:50","slug":"cold-and-hot-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/01\/cold-and-hot-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold and Hot Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/un-muted.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/catholic-knows-its-cold-when.html\">un-Muted Mumblings blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">As the temperature dips into the low single digits (or below zero according to some), I ran into some particularly Catholic experiences this morning. So here is my &quot;A Catholic knows it is cold when:&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> &#8211; Your lips freeze to the metal crucifix as you kiss your Rosary for the morning commute.<br \/>\n&#8211; You bless yourself with holy ice instead of holy water from the font by the front door.<br \/>\n&#8211; You experience an apparition walking by the front yard statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary; she isn&#8217;t crying, but she appears to be shivering.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Rosary swinging from the rear view mirror chips ice off the windshield as you slam on the brakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">  and the number one way to know it is cold (not exclusive to Catholics)<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> &#8211; The environmentalists stop talking about global warming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Funny stuff. Now here is my Florida counterpoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">A Catholic knows it&#8217;s hot when.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You fill up your Holy Water font five times a day because it keeps evaporating.<\/li>\n<li>You have a cross shaped burn mark on your lip from kissing your crucifix.<\/li>\n<li>You squeeze to rinse your scapular daily because of the all the sweat it has absorbed.<\/li>\n<li>You never buy a Rosary with black beads because they retain too much heat.<\/li>\n<li>The plastic Jesus on your dashboard melted.<\/li>\n<li>There are no miraculous statues of Mary since her tears evaporate before anybody notices anything.<\/li>\n<li>You burned your fingers blessing yourself at Mass from a Holy Water font warmed by sunlight through the stained glass windows.<\/li>\n<li>Your church bulletin is printed on asbestos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the number one way Catholics know that it is hot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You start to wonder just how bad Purgatorial flames can be in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>un-Muted Mumblings blogs: As the temperature dips into the low single digits (or below zero according to some), I ran into some particularly Catholic experiences this morning. So here is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}