{"id":122490,"date":"2023-07-31T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122490"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:44:36","slug":"monday-food-for-thought-from-howard-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122490","title":{"rendered":"Monday food for Thought from Howard Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Howard Strickland tells the story of a young girl of about 8 being approached in her parish by a well-meaning older woman who remarked upon her jewelry.\u201cHoney, don&#8217;t you know that the cross Jesus died on wasn&#8217;t beautiful like the one you&#8217;re wearing? It was an ugly, terrible, wooden thing.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe little girl smiled and said: &#8220;Oh, I know that. But they told me in Sunday school that whatever Jesus touches, He changes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;quoted in the Sunday sermon by yours truly<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HolyWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HolyWeek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HolyWeek2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HolyWeek2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CatholicArt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CatholicArt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HrabanusMaurus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HrabanusMaurus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AbbeyofFulda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AbbeyofFulda<\/a> &quot;To the Honor of the Holy Cross&quot; &#39;a multimedia masterpiece that uses paintings, poems, and prose&#39;<br \/>&quot;Christ Crucified with Arms Extended&quot; (c. 1170\u20131180), British Library, Harley Collection<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/78dDKXEAs9\">https:\/\/t.co\/78dDKXEAs9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYFKB4EZ0l\">pic.twitter.com\/YYFKB4EZ0l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Schaefer (@MattRSchaefer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattRSchaefer\/status\/1246853231940075522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Strickland tells the story of a young girl of about 8 being approached in her parish by a well-meaning older woman who remarked upon her jewelry.\u201cHoney, don&#8217;t you know that the cross Jesus died on wasn&#8217;t beautiful like the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122490\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122492,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122490\/revisions\/122492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}