{"id":267,"date":"2014-12-18T19:26:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-12-19T02:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:33:52","slug":"a-single-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"A single journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dickens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"John Street 34\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34.jpg 1339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I sat in Charles Dickens house in London a few years back on Christmas day, I am reminded of the reading I heard from the lips of an Englishman as I sat in the writer&#8217;s study and peered out the window.<\/p>\n<p>From \u201cA Christmas Carol,&#8221; cheerful nephew Fred tells a bah-humbugging Ebenezer Scrooge that Christmas is \u201ca good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon this spirit, religion, an order to the conscious, arises, if just a moment of each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Dickens.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/John-Street-34.jpg\"><\/a> As I sat in Charles Dickens house in London a few years back on Christmas day, I am reminded of the reading I heard from the lips of an Englishman as I sat in the writer&#8217;s study and peered out the window. From \u201cA Christmas Carol,&#8221; cheerful nephew Fred tells a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}