{"id":486,"date":"2008-12-29T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T08:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/all-around-you\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T08:57:54","slug":"all-around-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/all-around-you\/","title":{"rendered":"All Around You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this over weekend from The Wall Street Journal Weekend&#8230;Peggy Noonan&#39;s book recommendations, I believe.&#0160; The content relates to Mother Teresa and a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mother-Teresas-Secret-Fire-Encounter\/dp\/159276309X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1230559002&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> by Joseph Langord.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &quot;In this book, based on her letters, writings and conversations, he tells of how<br \/>\nshe came to serve &quot;the least, the last, and the lost,&quot; not as a female Albert<br \/>\nSchweitzer but as &quot;a mystic with sleeves rolled up.&quot; Father Langford tells the<br \/>\nstory of her encounter on the train, of what was said, of what she heard, and of<br \/>\nthe things he learned from her including, most centrally, this: <strong><em><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">You must find your own Calcutta.<br \/>\nYou don&#39;t have to go to <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\"><\/st1:city><\/st1:place>India.&#0160; Calcutta is all around you.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I added the bold and italics because of how much the statement means to me.&#0160; I hope it hits home with you as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this over weekend from The Wall Street Journal Weekend&#8230;Peggy Noonan&#39;s book recommendations, I believe.&#0160; The content relates to Mother Teresa and a recent book by Joseph Langord. &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &quot;In this book, based on her letters, writings and conversations, he tells of how she came to serve &quot;the least, the last, and the lost,&quot;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}