{"id":37225,"date":"2014-08-14T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=37225"},"modified":"2014-08-19T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:38:22","slug":"when-the-odds-arent-in-your-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/when-the-odds-arent-in-your-favour\/","title":{"rendered":"When the odds aren&#8217;t in your favour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37227\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Max.jpg\" alt=\"Max\" width=\"200\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Max.jpg 236w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Max-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Today is\u00a0Feast Day of <a title=\"Living life like the Max\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/living-life-like-the-max\/\">St. Maximilian Kolbe<\/a>, one of my all-time favourite Saints, as well as one of the requested members of my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/welcoming-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">welcoming party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;ve never heard of St. Maximilian, he was a priest and martyr during World War II. I&#8217;d invite you to click on <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/living-life-like-the-max\/\" target=\"_blank\">my\u00a0link<\/a> and read the short summary I wrote of his life several years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">St. Max was one of the first Saints I really investigated. I was kinda blown-away. I think you&#8217;ll find the story of his martyrdom, in particular, incredibly moving and Christ-like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If that post piques your interest, I&#8217;d suggest you check out Fr. Robert Barron&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wordonfire.org\/WoF-Blog\/WoF-Blog\/August-2014\/9-Things-to-Know-about-St--Maximilian-Kolbe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">more extensive article<\/a>\u00a0which he recently posted over at his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordonfire.org\" target=\"_blank\">Word On Fire<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is\u00a0Feast Day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, one of my all-time favourite Saints, as well as one of the requested members of my\u00a0welcoming party. If you&#8217;ve never heard of St. Maximilian, he was a priest and martyr during World War II. I&#8217;d invite you to click on my\u00a0link and read the short summary I wrote of his life several years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2667,98],"class_list":["post-37225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-hunger-games","tag-maximilian-kolbe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37225"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43645,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37225\/revisions\/43645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}