{"id":174090,"date":"2024-03-17T21:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174090"},"modified":"2024-03-17T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:28:27","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-st-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174090","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from St. Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downpatrick, Northern Ireland&#8230;March 17, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is traditionally recognized as the day of his death. He was a fifth century missionary, bishop &amp; Patron Saint of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Patrick\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-174396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Saint_Patrick_Catholic_Church_Junction_City_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Saint_Patrick_-_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made &#8211; even me, his poor little child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downpatrick, Northern Ireland&#8230;March 17, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is traditionally recognized as the day of his death. He was a fifth century missionary, bishop &amp; Patron Saint of Ireland. &#8220;Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.&#8221; &#8220;I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Saint_Patrick_Catholic_Church_Junction_City_Ohio_-_stained_glass_Saint_Patrick_-_detail.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174397,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174090\/revisions\/174397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}