{"id":1070,"date":"2020-12-14T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:30:49","slug":"feast-day-st-john-of-the-cross-great-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Feast Day, St. John of the Cross &#8211; great quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can be applied to anything difficult.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be42ca8ab200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John of the cross\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026be42ca8ab200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026be42ca8ab200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"John of the cross\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv2182720268rcontent\">\n<div class=\"yiv2182720268maintext\">&quot;Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2182720268attribution\">\u2014 St. John of the Cross<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can be applied to anything difficult. &quot;Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.&quot; \u2014 St. John of the Cross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}