{"id":256,"date":"2010-09-17T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-09-17T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T04:11:13","slug":"i-regale-him-each-time-i-meet-him-with-the-story-of-some-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"I REGALE HIM EACH TIME I MEET HIM WITH THE STORY OF SOME SUDDEN DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>La Poire<\/em>, nickname of the marquis Boniface de P\u00e9rier, was a childhood friend of Eugene\u2019s father. In this extract from a letter of Eugene to his father, one gets a glimpse of Eugene\u2019s sense of humour. I can imagine him grinning as he writes about his attempts to get La Poire to convert \u2013 but \u201cterrorising\u201d him with a very serious aim for doing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong> &#8230; What you say about La Poire is very true. So it is not just out of kindness I asked you for a letter for him, but because of your business relation with him. What you indicate to me for him is enough; I will tell him. He is known as a supreme egoist; I regret it, and even more that he pays little heed to his salvation. I am all the more concerned that he will in all probability be caught unawares by death, which he is afraid of in a way that is at once dreadful and laughable. I see him rarely as I am too busy to see him often. However, for the good of his soul, I regale him each time I meet him with the story of some sudden death; it is with the intention of getting him to come back sincerely to God, who will lose patience in the end with his holding back.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Charles Antoine de Mazenod, 15 September 1815, O.W. XV n. 134<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Poire, nickname of the marquis Boniface de P\u00e9rier, was a childhood friend of Eugene\u2019s father. In this extract from a letter of Eugene to his father, one gets a glimpse of Eugene\u2019s sense of humour. I can imagine him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=256\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7,46],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-conversion","tag-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}