{"id":1117,"date":"2020-08-30T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:49:50","slug":"a-very-timely-quote-from-st-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"A very timely quote from St. Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9609eb6200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St augustine icon\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9609eb6200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9609eb6200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"St augustine icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His feast day was on the 28th. Brigid&#39;s lovely niece June sent this to Brigid.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Ubuntu, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;\">&quot;Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times&quot; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Ubuntu, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;\">&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<em>&#0160;&#0160;(St. Augustine, Sermon 30). Ever ancient, ever new. These words seem written for today.<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde8deea1200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St. augustine\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde8deea1200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bde8deea1200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 190px;\" title=\"St. augustine\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His feast day was on the 28th. Brigid&#39;s lovely niece June sent this to Brigid.&#0160; &quot;Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times&quot; &#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;(St. Augustine, Sermon 30). Ever ancient, [&hellip;]<\/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-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}