{"id":524,"date":"2012-03-07T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-03-07T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:44:12","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/words-to-live-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to live by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an upcoming seminar, one of a series on the college&#8217;s Catholic and Norbertine roots, I have been charged with reading the Rule of St. Augustine. <a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rule-of-St.Augustine1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-528\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rule-of-St.Augustine1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>Always ready to engage with any piece of text, I tend to embark on such assignments in an eager, can-do spirit: okey-dokey, let&#8217;s roll up our sleeves, block out some time \u2013 a couple of Saturdays should take care of it \u2013 and we&#8217;ll just get &#8216;er done. Or at least, most of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>So here I find myself with this seminal document before me &#8211; words that reach across\u00a0 16 centuries to shape the lives of my colleagues from St. Norbert Abbey, who live under this Rule today. All 3,437 of them \u2013 words, I mean, not Norbertines. 3,437! That&#8217;s about the length of a Time magazine feature. This is not a long work. It does find room to cover pride and prayer; quarreling and forgiveness; moths, baths and the appropriate hour to borrow a book; oneness of mind and heart. 3,437 words. Remarkable. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an upcoming seminar, one of a series on the college&#8217;s Catholic and Norbertine roots, I have been charged with reading the Rule of St. Augustine. Always ready to engage with any piece of text, I tend to embark on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/words-to-live-by\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,271,320,353,374],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}