{"id":8955,"date":"2002-08-27T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T22:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/08\/27\/ego-boost\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:28:07","slug":"ego-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/08\/ego-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorlams.com\/etc\/2002_08_01_etcarchive.html#80747328\">Victor\u00a0Lams for the kind things he said about my blog, unfortunately my head\u00a0swelled to two-times normal size prompting me to compose the\u00a0following:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Litany of Blog Humility<\/p>\n<p>From the desire of\u00a0my blog being read<br \/>\n<em>Deliver me dear Jesus<\/em><br \/>\nFrom the desire of my blog\u00a0being praised<br \/>\n<em>Deliver me dear Jesus<\/em><br \/>\nFrom the fear of my blog being\u00a0despised<br \/>\n<em>Deliver me dear Jesus<\/em><br \/>\nFrom the fear of my blog being\u00a0forgotten<br \/>\n<em>Deliver me dear Jesus<br \/>\n<\/em>From the fear of no page\u00a0views<br \/>\n<em>Deliver me dear Jesus<\/em><br \/>\nThat other blogs may be loved more than\u00a0mine<br \/>\n<em>Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That Nihil Obstat may\u00a0find all my grammatical and spelling errors<em><br \/>\nJesus, grant me the grace to\u00a0desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That Google may never list my blog<br \/>\n<em>Jesus, grant me the\u00a0grace to desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That comments always be negative<em> and\u00a0abusive<br \/>\nJesus, grant me the grace to desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That my commenting\u00a0system always say &#8220;commenting temporarily unavailable&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Jesus, grant me the\u00a0grace to desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That Mark Shea may notice every blog but\u00a0mine<em><br \/>\nJesus, grant me the grace to desire it<br \/>\n<\/em>That others may be\u00a0pithier than I, provided that I may become as pithy as I should<br \/>\n<em>Jesus,\u00a0grant me the grace to desire it<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Victor\u00a0Lams for the kind things he said about my blog, unfortunately my head\u00a0swelled to two-times normal size prompting me to compose the\u00a0following: The Litany of Blog Humility From&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-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","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=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12812,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/12812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}