{"id":14492,"date":"2011-10-10T23:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14492"},"modified":"2011-10-10T23:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T03:51:50","slug":"st-francis-in-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-francis-in-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis in Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The religious left, in the form of Jim Wallis of Sojourners, is hastening to bestow its benediction on the Wall Street protestors who, it seems, are following in the footsteps of St. Francis.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2011\/10\/10\/occupying-wall-street-for-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Religious Left icon Jim Wallis has announced he will conduct a visitation\u00a0to the occupiers presumably to bestow his blessing and, he doubtless hopes, to receive their homage.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Wallis acolyte is pacifist Evangelical Left activist Shane Claiborne, who likened the Wall Street Occupiers to St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast day is this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brother Shane has a point. As I recall from <em>\u201cThe Little Flowers of St. Francis\u201d<\/em>, one of his first acts on becoming a Christian was to remove all his clothes and present them to his wealthy father. Here is a worthy Wall Street follower doing the same:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14493\" title=\"St. Francis on his conversion\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/article-2047168-0E4EAA6B00000578-763_306x4641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is another acolyte defecating on a police car. I will have to reread <em>\u201cThe Little Flowers of St. Francis\u201d, <\/em>since I can&#8217;t quite\u00a0recall where that\u00a0was mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14494\" title=\"St. Francis being rude\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/article-2046586-0E481DB700000578-865_634x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The religious left, in the form of Jim Wallis of Sojourners, is hastening to bestow its benediction on the Wall Street protestors who, it seems, are following in the footsteps of St. Francis. From here: Religious Left icon Jim Wallis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-francis-in-wall-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[1171,1455],"class_list":["post-14492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-occupying-wall-street","tag-st-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}