{"id":63996,"date":"2017-01-26T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=63996"},"modified":"2019-03-10T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:53:24","slug":"how-i-met-your-blessed-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/how-i-met-your-blessed-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"TEA: How I met your Blessed Mother (St. Brigid)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63998\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mary.jpeg\" alt=\"Mary\" width=\"860\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mary.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mary-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mary-768x488.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mary-600x382.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night I led Bible study at a local parish and I was asked to give an informal talk beforehand on the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n<p>My talk was entitled <em>&#8220;How I met your (Blessed) Mother&#8221;<\/em> and in it I told a little bit of my story and explained how I overcame my deep-seated resistance concerning Mary and how I ultimately came to embrace the Catholic teaching concerning the Blessed Mother.<\/p>\n<p>Some friends couldn&#8217;t make it last night and asked me to record the talk, so for anyone who would like to hear it, the audio is available below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How I met your (Blessed) Mother<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/How-I-met-your-Blessed-Mother.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>)<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63996-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/How-I-met-your-Blessed-Mother.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/How-I-met-your-Blessed-Mother.mp3\">http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/How-I-met-your-Blessed-Mother.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I led Bible study at a local parish and I was asked to give an informal talk beforehand on the Virgin Mary. My talk was entitled &#8220;How I met your (Blessed) Mother&#8221; and in it I told a little bit of my story and explained how I overcame my deep-seated resistance concerning Mary and how I ultimately came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1908],"tags":[4250,400,2969,2640,4252,1432,4251,4333,4253,4206,184,4048],"class_list":["post-63996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-mp3-download","tag-ark-of-the-new-covenant","tag-catholicism","tag-featured","tag-mary","tag-model","tag-new-eve","tag-new-queen-mother","tag-restless-pilgrim-tour","tag-st-brigids","tag-talk","tag-theotokos","tag-virgin-mary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mary.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63996","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=63996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70406,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63996\/revisions\/70406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}