{"id":9719,"date":"2025-05-16T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:46:00","slug":"truth-in-jest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/truth-in-jest\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in Jest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes There is Truth in Jest<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have you ever felt like you have nothing to say for the moment? Have you ever been in a situation where you were expected to say \u201csomething\u201d but you really had nothing to say?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, my dear people, this is where I find myself this week. Perhaps I\u2019m just talked-out and preached-out. My only consolation is that silence, at times, is absolutely golden and delicious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, I\u2019m going to give myself the permission not to say anything more than what I am writing at the moment, because when one forces oneself to say something or anything when one is not so inspired, what comes out of oneself is usually not worth anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Perhaps this is the message for this week: <em>When you have nothing worth saying, let others relax and take a vacation from your voice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Friar Julio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9720 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stjuliasilercity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fruit-of.png?resize=920%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Veces hay Verdad en la Broma<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00bfAlguna vez han sentido que no tienen nada que decir por el momento? \u00bfAlguna vez han estado en una situaci\u00f3n en la que se esperaba que dijeras &#8220;algo&#8221; pero en realidad no ten\u00edas nada que decir?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bueno, queridos, as\u00ed es como me encuentro esta semana. Quiz\u00e1s simplemente he hablado y predicado hasta el cansancio. Mi \u00fanico consuelo es que el silencio, a veces, es absolutamente precioso y delicioso.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As\u00ed que me voy a permitir no decir nada m\u00e1s de lo que estoy escribiendo en este momento, porque cuando uno se obliga a decir algo o cualquier cosa cuando no est\u00e1 muy inspirado, lo que sale de uno mismo no suele valer nada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Quiz\u00e1s este sea el mensaje de esta semana: <em>Cuando no tengas nada que decir, deja que los dem\u00e1s se relajen y descansen de tu voz.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fray Julio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes There is Truth in Jest Have you ever felt like you have nothing to say for the moment? Have you ever been in a situation where you were expected to say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-heart"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjuliasilercity.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}