{"id":390,"date":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=390"},"modified":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:00:00","slug":"my-dear-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"My Dear Ted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\"><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>hen                            I think back to the first time I met you in <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">Kettering<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">                            I was a bit scared of you being a Priest. My experience                            in my late teens was not very positive regarding the                            Church. But your love, insight and encouragement changed                            all of that. You helped me find and believe in my own                            spirituality. When we came to <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">Australia<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">                            in 1979 you took us into your home in Burrawang and                            were able to truly share your life and friends without                            the slightest trace of ownership.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                         <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">I                            have always felt loved by you. I am so grateful for                            the love you have shown to my children especially in                            the turbulent years. I remember when I was worried at                            one of these times and you would reply with &ldquo;but isn&#8217;t                            she (or he) wonderful&#8217;. You would see some element of                            rebellion as a sign of courage or a sense of justice.                            It is an honour to be loved by you my friend. I know                            I would not have survived in <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">Australia<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"\">                            if you hadn&#8217;t been here as a friend. I thank you for                            walking beside a little person like me. I love you so                            very much.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">When I think back to the first time I met you in Kettering I was a bit scared of you being a Priest. My experience in my late teens was not very positive regarding the Church. But your love, insight and encouragement changed all of that. You helped me find and believe in my own spirituality. When we came to Australia in 1979 you took us into your home in Burrawang and were able to truly share your life and friends without the slightest trace of ownership.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"margin: 3pt 0cm;\">\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}