{"id":5552,"date":"2005-08-15T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/08\/15\/called-and-responding\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T17:07:06","slug":"called-and-responding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/08\/called-and-responding\/","title":{"rendered":"Called and responding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shreveporttimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050815\/NEWS01\/508150314\/1002\/NEWS\">nice article on four new seminarians<\/a> for the Diocese of Shreveport which includes this piece from the diocesan vocations director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Every time I see a spark, I travel and pour some gasoline on it,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">He has only held the job for a year, and is the only lay vocations director in the country &#8212; a further testimony to the shortage of priests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Formerly the chief fundraiser for the diocese, Wilcox said this job is even harder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;I&#8217;m not asking people for money anymore,&quot; he said. &quot;I&#8217;m asking for their children and grandchildren.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a nice article on four new seminarians for the Diocese of Shreveport which includes this piece from the diocesan vocations director. &quot;Every time I see a spark, I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}