{"id":6894,"date":"2023-08-28T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2023-08-28T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:53:11","slug":"thought-from-one-city-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Thought from one city priest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/14\/opinion\/nashville-father-strobel-homelessness.html\">This memorial is powerful.  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This line stuck with me: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What he understood is the difference between charity and community \u2014 a difference founded in kinship, in recognizing that we all fall down, that sometimes it takes another hand to pull us up again. \u201c<strong>All you have to do,\u201d <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/chapter16.org\/the-worthless-servant\/?fbclid=IwAR2suQZxu-NqXd_u-VXz6qJyvocacBuubbbOEFG3rSBA2gu9HiqO5tNtcGM\" target=\"_blank\">he once told the novelist Ann Patchett<\/a>, <strong>\u201cis give a little bit of understanding to the possibility that life might not have been fair.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renkl, Margaret. \u201cOpinion | Proof That One Life Can Change the World.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em>, August 14, 2023, sec. Opinion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This memorial is powerful. This line stuck with me: What he understood is the difference between charity and community \u2014 a difference founded in kinship, in recognizing that we all fall down, that sometimes it takes another hand to pull us up again. \u201cAll you have to do,\u201d he once told the novelist Ann Patchett, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=6894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thought from one city priest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-of-note"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1Nc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}