{"id":2319,"date":"2011-09-17T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2011-09-17T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:32:54","slug":"friars-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2319","title":{"rendered":"Friars Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/friarsonly.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>I took a little drive this morning, stopping at a handful of places that had meant something to me in the past.  It was a late summer\/early autumn trip down memory lane.  The coming of autumn always makes me nostalgic.<\/p>\n<p>One of my stops was at the church where I got married way back in the mid-80s, St. Joes in East Rutherford.  While walking thru the parking lot looking for a photo angle, I came upon this little scene.  A dumpster and some garbage cans &#8212; friars only.  Hmmmm, makes you consider that St. Francis was born wealthy but voluntarily became a mendicant, trading luxurious clothing and sumptuous meals for what ever he could garner from begging and sifting thru trash heaps (or where ever they put their garbage back in the 13th Century &#8212; but is garbage mostly a modern concept, a luxury of affluence?).<\/p>\n<p>Well, I doubt that any modern OFMs had sifted through these bins.  And more ironically, the friars are now gone from St. Joes, having given the parish back to the local diocese not long ago in order to conserve their dwindling manpower.   So, this sign is a double anachronism, another memory of things that are no more.  Which is just what I was searching for this crisp, cool morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I took a little drive this morning, stopping at a handful of places that had meant something to me in the past. It was a late summer\/early autumn trip down memory lane. The coming of autumn always makes me nostalgic. One of my stops was at the church where I got married way back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}