{"id":188335,"date":"2025-11-24T07:29:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=188335"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:32:24","slug":"todays-quote-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/the-catholic-bill-buckley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Kimball<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sometimes wonder whether the \u201csign of peace\u201d routine wasn\u2019t contrived by some hardened enemy of the Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Frank Meyer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his last illness, Meyer struggled with the momentous decision of whether to convert to Catholicism. Bill [Buckley] was a tireless emissary between Meyer and various confidantes. Bill reports that Meyer, from his bed of woe, complained that \u201cthe only remaining intellectual obstacle to his conversion was the collectivist implication lurking in the formulation \u2018the communion of saints\u2019 in the Apostles\u2019 Creed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Kimball: I sometimes wonder whether the \u201csign of peace\u201d routine wasn\u2019t contrived by some hardened enemy of the Church. On Frank Meyer: In his last illness, Meyer struggled with the momentous decision of whether to convert to Catholicism. Bill [Buckley] was a tireless emissary between Meyer and various confidantes. Bill reports that Meyer, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-38\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quotes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-MZF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188337,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188335\/revisions\/188337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}