{"id":1720,"date":"2017-09-05T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:06:57","slug":"today-20th-anniversary-the-death-of-mother-teresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Today &#8211; 20th anniversary &#8211; the death of Mother Teresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09c00c44970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mother teresa\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09c00c44970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09c00c44970d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Mother teresa\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now of course St. Teresa of Calcutta.<\/p>\n<p>The Jesuit publication America has re-posted a # of features from past issues about her &#8211; just go here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/mother-teresa\">What was so extraordinary about this \u201csaint of the gutters?\u201d How could someone revered as a saint not feel God\u2019s presence for long periods of her life? Mother Teresa seems to have anticipated these questions: &quot;If I ever become a saint &#8212; I will surely be one of &#39;darkness.&#39; I will continually be absent from Heaven \u2014 to light the light of those in darkness on earth.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now of course St. Teresa of Calcutta. The Jesuit publication America has re-posted a # of features from past issues about her &#8211; just go here &#8211; What was so extraordinary about this \u201csaint of the gutters?\u201d How could someone revered as a saint not feel God\u2019s presence for long periods of her life? Mother [&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-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}