{"id":243,"date":"2015-12-07T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2015-12-07T03:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T08:22:14","slug":"just-pro-birth-riiiiiight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/just-pro-birth-riiiiiight\/","title":{"rendered":"Just &#8220;Pro-birth&#8221;&#8230;  riiiiiight&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all those folks who say that pro-lifers are really just &#8220;pro-birth&#8221;, I point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/badgercatholic.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/abp-listecki-grateful-for-all-those-who.html\">my home archbishop&#8217;s grateful\u00a0note<\/a> (courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/badgercatholic.blogspot.com\/\">Badger Catholic<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having just finished Thanksgiving, we all need a gentle reminder to see our lives and the people in them as blessings. Wanting to practice what I preach, I am extending to you my Love One Another and Herald of Hope readers, a <b>Thank You <\/b>for your gracious response to Our Blessed Mother\u2019s Baby Shower. Your generosity produced 3 booster seats, 4,844 diapers, 194 outfits, 12 hats, 15 baby blankets, 6 bibs, 19 packages of wipes, 2 pairs of socks, 1 pair of mittens, 1 soft infant toy, 1 infant safety kit and $3,000 in cash. The items and cash donations were distributed to the Women\u2019s Care Center (1441 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee) and Women\u2019s Support Center (2051 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee).<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady, the Blessed Mother, invaded my thoughts. She asked me to extend to all who offered gifts her gratitude and requested that I offer a rosary for your intentions. If blessings come flowing into your lives, know that it was prayers being offered for you.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, when you\u2019re good to Mother, Mother is good to you. To paraphrase George M. Cohan, God the Father thanks you, His Son thanks you, the Holy Spirit thanks you and I thank you \u2013 as you use your generosity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all those folks who say that pro-lifers are really just &#8220;pro-birth&#8221;, I point you to my home archbishop&#8217;s grateful\u00a0note (courtesy of the Badger Catholic): Having just finished Thanksgiving, we all need a gentle reminder to see our lives and the people in them as blessings. Wanting to practice what I preach, I am extending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-milwaukee","category-wisconsin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}