{"id":5854,"date":"2024-09-24T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:57:41","slug":"it-is-never-my-intention-to-offend-even-when-i-may-speak-a-little-harshly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"IT IS NEVER MY INTENTION TO OFFEND, EVEN WHEN I MAY SPEAK A LITTLE HARSHLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>First let it be understood that you must never be disquieted or annoyed over the observations that I will sometimes have occasion to make. Be well aware it is never my intention to offend, even when I may speak a little harshly.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Father Jean Baudrand in Canada, 30 September 1849, EO I n 124<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>This recalls some of my elders correcting me with the words, &#8220;Believe me, this hurts me more than it hurts you!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene had strong opinions and a direct way of expressing them. Over the years life taught him to be more diplomatic &#8211; but with his Oblates he regarded himself as their spiritual father and felt free to say what was in his heart. He was deeply pained himself when he realized that his words had wounded someone. He was always the first to apologize and to express his love for his sons.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let it be understood that you must never be disquieted or annoyed over the observations that I will sometimes have occasion to make. Be well aware it is never my intention to offend, even when I may speak a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5854\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}