{"id":5450,"date":"2006-01-19T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/01\/19\/grace-and-merit\/"},"modified":"2006-01-19T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:43:08","slug":"grace-and-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/01\/grace-and-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace and Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader who prefers to remain anonymous sent in this funny orginal ditty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">To the tune of Love and Marriage:<\/p>\n<p>Grace and merit, grace and merit,<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s so great that He can&#8217;t wait to share it&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;Specially with His Mother!<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t have one without the other.<\/p>\n<p>Grace and merit, grace and merit,<br \/>\nThe Cross is heavy but you&#8217;ll have to bear it.<br \/>\nListen, sister, brother,<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t have one without the other.<\/p>\n<p>Try, try, try to separate them,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an illusion.<br \/>\nTry, try, try and you will only add<br \/>\nTo the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Grace and merit, grace and merit,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a legacy we can inherit,<br \/>\nWith and through His Mother.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t have one without the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader who prefers to remain anonymous sent in this funny orginal ditty. To the tune of Love and Marriage: Grace and merit, grace and merit, God&#8217;s so great that&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-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","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=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}