{"id":796,"date":"2008-11-01T07:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=796"},"modified":"2010-03-06T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T15:09:42","slug":"abbot-john-tells-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/abbot-john-tells-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbot John Tells a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story to tell.<br \/>\nIt has five chapters,<br \/>\nbut they are short.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nChapter One<\/p>\n<p>I walk down the street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI fall in.<br \/>\nI am lost&#8230; I am helpless. It isn\u2019t my fault.<br \/>\nIt takes forever to find a way out.<br \/>\nChapter two<\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI pretend I don\u2019t see it.<br \/>\nI fall in again.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t believe I am in the same place.<br \/>\nBut it isn\u2019t my fault.<br \/>\nIt still takes a long time to get out.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter three<\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI see it is there.<br \/>\nI fall in&#8230; It\u2019s a habit&#8230;But my eyes are open.<br \/>\nI know where I am.<br \/>\nIt is my fault.<br \/>\nI get out immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter four<\/p>\n<p>I walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI walk around it.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter five<\/p>\n<p>I walk down a different street<\/p>\n<p>Homily for Vigil of Saint Benedict<br \/>\nBy Abbot John Klassen, OSB<br \/>\nJuly 10, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osb.org\/oblate\/pdf\/095301.pdf\"target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.osb.org\/oblate\/pdf\/095301.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a story to tell. It has five chapters, but they are short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-klassen","wp-image-borders"],"views":230,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}