{"id":8683,"date":"2017-11-02T20:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T03:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2017-11-02T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T03:49:39","slug":"7-quick-takes-the-dodgers-are-losers-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8683","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: The Dodgers Are Losers Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seriously perfect.<\/strong> I was looking for Dodger GIFS for this post and came across this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/dodgerssuck.gif\" alt=\"Dodgers suck!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I consider this proof that God loves me and wants me to be happy. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My horrible sportsmanship.<\/strong> Someone on Facebook called me out for my Dodgers-hating and told me I was a horrible sport. My response:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/duh.gif\" alt=\"Duh!\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because I am Hermione, yo!<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been invited to join my school&#8217;s chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptk.org\/\">Phi Theta Kappa<\/a> because I&#8217;ve been pulling a 4.0 for the last 4 quarters. I may or may not have fist-pumped when I got the email.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m dying.<\/strong> Talk about going out on top!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/trumptwitter.jpg\" alt=\"I cannot stop laughing.\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All Soul&#8217;s Day.<\/strong> I thought I&#8217;d share this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/episcopalian\/\">The Episcopal Church&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>. (I recommend following them for the pictures coupled with prayers or Scripture they post twice a day.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/allsouls.jpg\" alt=\"All Soul's Day\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because Loreena McKennitt.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve seen her perform this twice in concert.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOREENA MCKENNITT ALL SOULS NIGHT LIVE.avi\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVLnOUBIiP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some more Loreena McKennitt.<\/strong> One thing she does well is set poetry to music. I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=80-kp6RDl94\">her version<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45359\/the-lady-of-shalott-1832\">&#8220;The Lady of Shalott&#8221; (Lord Alfred Tennyson)<\/a> to memorize the last part of it for my 8th grade accelerated English class in 1994 and she is known for putting Shakespeare to music.<\/p>\n<p>I especially love her version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43187\/the-highwayman\">&#8220;The Highwayman&#8221; by Alfred Noyes<\/a>. It&#8217;s too bad she released it 4 years after my brother had to memorize part of it!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Highway Man\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yzXQZmG8cw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; Seriously perfect. I was looking for Dodger GIFS for this post and came across this one&#8230; I consider this proof that God loves me and wants me to be happy. \ud83d\ude00 &#8212; 2 &#8212; My horrible sportsmanship. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=8683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,3,1,2,7,26,12,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-cats","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-music","category-politics","category-school","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-2g3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}