{"id":505,"date":"2007-02-20T17:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2007-02-20T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T01:59:48","slug":"a-scholars-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2007\/02\/20\/a-scholars-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scholar&#039;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom,<br \/>\norigin of all being,<br \/>\ngraciously let a ray of your light penetrate<br \/>\nthe darkness of my understanding.<br \/>\nTake from me the double darkness<br \/>\nin which I have been born,<br \/>\nan obscurity of sin and ignorance.<br \/>\nGive me a keen understanding,<br \/>\na retentive memory, and<br \/>\nthe ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.<br \/>\nGrant me the talent of being exact<br \/>\nin my explanations and the ability to express myself<br \/>\nwith thoroughness and charm.<br \/>\nPoint out the beginning,<br \/>\ndirect the progress,<br \/>\nand help in the completion.<br \/>\nI ask this through Christ our Lord.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Thomas Aquinas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-89","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}