{"id":2338,"date":"2015-03-01T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:19:13","slug":"fr-barron-on-thomas-merton-the-100th-anniversary-of-his-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Barron on Thomas Merton; the 100th anniversary of his birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice under ten minute talk. I read quite a few of Merton&#8217;s books in my 20&#8217;s &#8211; like this one,&nbsp;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Man-Island-Thomas-Merton\/dp\/0156027739\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425152923&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=no+man+is+an+island+thomas+merton\" target=\"_self\">No Man is an Island<\/a> , and this one,&nbsp;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zen-Birds-Appetite-Directions-Paperbook\/dp\/081120104X\/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425153155&amp;sr=8-18&amp;keywords=thomas+merton+books\" target=\"_self\">Zen and the Birds of Appetite <\/a> &#8211;&nbsp; although not his autobiographical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton\/dp\/0156010860\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425153212&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=seven+story+mountain\" target=\"_self\">Seven Story Mountain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I probably should re-read a couple, just to see how well the books have aged, as I age!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5X8fp2CvQmA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice under ten minute talk. I read quite a few of Merton&#8217;s books in my 20&#8217;s &#8211; like this one,&nbsp;No Man is an Island , and this one,&nbsp;Zen and the Birds of Appetite &#8211;&nbsp; although not his autobiographical Seven Story Mountain. I probably should re-read a couple, just to see how well the books [&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-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}