{"id":21,"count":6,"description":"\n\n\nPortrait of Shirley Smith hanging in St Vincent's\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lamp of the body is the eye. Matthew, 6:22\n\n\nShirley Smith's great hero and patron saint was Martin de Porres. Martin was a mixed race Dominican brother and barber-surgeon who lived 400 years ago in Lima, Peru. According to Martin's neighbors 400 years ago in Lima, Martin cured and protected people, animals and church mice. Take a look at St. Martin's holy card and you'll see the church mouse.\n\nPerhaps St Martin, with Mum Shirl's help, is still guiding church mice today.\n\nThank you, Kathy H.\n","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?cat=21","name":"Mum Shirl","slug":"mumshirl","taxonomy":"category","parent":9,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/9"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}