{"id":230,"date":"2006-12-03T03:37:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T11:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/12\/03\/a-friend-to-man\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T03:37:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T11:37:28","slug":"a-friend-to-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/a-friend-to-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend to man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loved this…<\/p>\n

\nLet me live in a house by the side of the road,
\n Where the race of men go by\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\n The men who are good and the men who are bad,
\n As good and as bad as I.<\/p>\n

I would not sit in the scorner’s seat,
\n Or hurl the cynic’s ban;\u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\n Let me live in a house by the side of the road
\n And be a friend to man.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Sam Walter Foss, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The House by the Side of the Road,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in James Dalton Morrison, ed., Masterpieces of Religious Verse [1948])<\/p>\n

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Loved this… Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by\u00e2\u20ac\u201d The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner’s seat, Or hurl the cynic’s ban;\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Let me live … Continue reading A friend to man<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}