{"id":6534,"date":"2005-02-09T19:39:39","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/02\/09\/sign-of-the-smudge\/"},"modified":"2005-02-09T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T00:39:39","slug":"sign-of-the-smudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/02\/sign-of-the-smudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Smudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">You know you are being trivial when you are annoyed by the form of the ashes on your head received from the disposition of the ashes during today&#8217;s Mass. Every year I hope for a shape that somewhat resembles a cross. Instead it is the sign of the smudge. Is it just me or do others desire a nice POD ash shaped cross centered nicely on their forehead? Well this is the season of penance so I should just get over it or maybe next year I should volunteer to help do the ashes. Maybe I will have more sympathy for the priest and the laity doing this after they have drawn their hundredth cross in a row. Though maybe I would come up with a better way to do it. Possibly a cross stencil with a sprayer connected to a canister of ashes would do nicely. Followed by a spray of some kind of clear coat to keep it intact for the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wboc.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=2923421\">ash related story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">AKRON, Ohio You have to burn something to get the ashes used on Ash Wednesday &#8212; and that triggered a false alarm this week at a Catholic church in Akron, Ohio.<br \/>\nSomebody called the fire departmnt when black smoke was seen billowing from the back of the St. Martha Church rectory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">When firefighters arrived, they found a priest tending a fire of palm fronds. He says his fire must have been smokier this year because it&#8217;s the first time the fire department has shown up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Catholic Ragemonkey Fr. Hamilton seems to <a href=\"http:\/\/ragemonkey.blogspot.com\/2005_02_06_ragemonkey_archive.html#110798106885046142\">have had better luck<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you are being trivial when you are annoyed by the form of the ashes on your head received from the disposition of the ashes during today&#8217;s Mass. Every&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}