{"id":6512,"date":"2022-12-26T18:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2022-12-26T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T18:08:46","slug":"throwing-stones-blindfolded-a-thought-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/throwing-stones-blindfolded-a-thought-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Stones, Blindfolded: A Thought for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Do you know what damage you may cause by throwing stones with your eyes blindfold?<br>&#8220;<i>Neither do you know the harm you may cause \u2014 and at times it is very great \u2014 by letting drop uncharitable remarks that to you seem trifling, because your eyes are blinded by thoughtlessness or passion.<\/i>&#8220;<br>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.escrivaworks.org\/book\/the_way\/point\/455\">The Way &gt; Charity &gt; Number 455<\/a>, &#8220;The Way,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escrivaworks.org\">Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/padrejorge\">padrejorge<\/a>, on Twitter, for the heads-up on this quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Originally posted <a href=\"https:\/\/catholiccitizenamerica.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/thought-for-day-throwing-bricks.html\">June 9, 2009<\/a><br>on <a href=\"https:\/\/catholiccitizenamerica.blogspot.com\/\">A Catholic Citizen in America<\/a>, Blogger, (June 2010-July 2016))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escrivaworks.org\/doc\/josemaria_escriva.htm\">About St. Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1<\/a><br>\nescrivaworks.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you know what damage you may cause by throwing stones with your eyes blindfold?&#8220;Neither do you know the harm you may cause \u2014 and at times it is very great \u2014 by letting drop uncharitable remarks that to you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/throwing-stones-blindfolded-a-thought-for-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[197,77,180],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-charity","tag-emotions","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1H2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}