{"id":340,"date":"2010-06-04T21:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/?p=340"},"modified":"2010-06-04T21:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:37:01","slug":"its-a-small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2010\/06\/04\/its-a-small-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Small World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I was running late for Mass, so\u00a0 I threw on the first pair of shoes that were within my grasp &#8211; my Holy Cross flip flops. I personally hate wearing flip flops to Mass; I think this is due to St. Joseph&#8217;s Chapel, where everything (and I mean <em>everything<\/em>) echoes. Anyway, I ran off to Mass in my flip flops, and tried to not make that much noise throughout Mass.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Mass, the\u00a0 man sitting next to me stopped me and asked, &#8220;Do you go to College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA?&#8221; I was quite shocked, since Holy Cross is not that well known of a school in England. I replied yes. He said, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t help but notice your flip flops.&#8221; He then introduced himself as a friend of several of the chaplains at Holy Cross (specifically Megan Fox-Kelly), as he attended Weston with many of them. As we talked, he informed me that he is now a Jesuit, and he invited me to dinner at Campion Hall with the other Jesuits in Oxford. Moral of the story: wear your Holy Cross flip flops wherever you are, even at Mass. Who knows? You might get a meal with the Jesuits out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I was running late for Mass, so\u00a0 I threw on the first pair of shoes that were within my grasp &#8211; my Holy Cross flip flops. I personally hate wearing flip flops to Mass; I think this is due to St. Joseph&#8217;s Chapel, where everything (and I mean everything) echoes. Anyway, I ran &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2010\/06\/04\/its-a-small-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s A Small World&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}