{"id":2729,"date":"2014-03-17T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:15:59","slug":"happy-saint-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/happy-saint-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2730\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"st.patrick\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>This day is not all about leprechauns, shamrocks and green beer.\u00a0 This is a day to honor and pray to St. Patrick.\u00a0 He was an influential saint who, 1,500 years ago, brought Christianity to the little country of Ireland.\u00a0 He was born about 385 in the British Isles, was carried off while still very young during a raid on Roman Britain by the Irish and sold as a slave.\u00a0 At the end of six years he contrived to escape to Europe, became a monk and was ordained; he then returned to Ireland to preach the Gospel.\u00a0 During the thirty years that his missionary labors continued he covered the Island with churches and monasteries; in 444 he founded the metropolitan see of Armagh. St. Patrick died in 461.\u00a0 After fifteen centuries he remains for all Irishmen the great bishop whom they venerate as their father in the Faith.<\/p>\n<p>While St. Patrick most likely did not drive out all the snakes in Ireland (there is no record that there were any) he did convert a nation state, I think driving out the snakes might have been easier!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/saints\/saint.php?saint_id=89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2731\" alt=\"st.patrick-facts\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick-facts.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick-facts.jpg 400w, https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/st.patrick-facts-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a Happy and Blessed St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day is not all about leprechauns, shamrocks and green beer.\u00a0 This is a day to honor and pray to St. Patrick.\u00a0 He was an influential saint who, 1,500 years ago, brought Christianity to the little country of Ireland.\u00a0 He was born about 385 in the British Isles, was carried off while still very young<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/happy-saint-patricks-day\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,66],"tags":[167,56,178],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-religion","tag-history","tag-holiday","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}