{"id":1005,"date":"2007-04-10T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2007-04-10T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:33:36","slug":"on-being-a-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"On Being a Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of the completely random, this surely must be counted.  I saw this and thought it was&#8230; strange. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If I were one of the fathers of the early Christian Church, who would I be?  (Leaving aside the obvious cognitive dissonance of being an atheist&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<table width=\"400\" border=\"2\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>You\u2019re St. Jerome!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fathersofthechurch.com\/quiz-files\/final_jerome.png\" width=138 height=145 class=\"alignright\">You\u2019re a passionate Christian, fiercely devoted to Jesus Christ and his Church. You are willing to labor long hours in the Lord\u2019s vineyard, and you have little patience with those who are less willing or able to work as you do. Your passions often carry you into temptation zones of wrath, lust, and pride.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathersofthechurch.com\/quiz\/\">Find out which Church Father you are at <em>The Way of the Fathers<\/em>!<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I actually know <i>nothing<\/i> about St. Jerome, so let&#8217;s see what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Jerome\">Wikipedia<\/a> says.  Hmm.  Translator of the Vulgate, patron of theological learning, the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists.  To think, I was really just picking answers at random.  And yet, it somehow fits&#8230;. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of the completely random, this surely must be counted. I saw this and thought it was&#8230; strange. \ud83d\ude42 If I were one of the fathers of the early Christian Church, who would I be? (Leaving aside the obvious cognitive dissonance of being an atheist&#8230;.) You\u2019re St. Jerome! You\u2019re a passionate Christian, fiercely<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1005\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Being a Saint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4107,378],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-memes","tag-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}