{"id":91425,"date":"2015-03-03T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91425"},"modified":"2015-02-19T23:13:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:13:36","slug":"why-do-i-love-peter-kreeft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/03\/why-do-i-love-peter-kreeft.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Love Peter Kreeft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Well, in addition to his quirky sense of humor, Thomist common sense, way with words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/mark-shea\/what-i-saw-at-defending-the-faith-in-steubenville\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">giant purple hippo anecdotes<\/a>, gracious help to me and Sherry Weddell as we were finding our way into the Church,\u00a0and willingness to let me give him bunny ears<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandonvogt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3.1-Bunny-Ears-575x429.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Dr. Kreeft is the only philosopher \u00a0I know who has written a philosophy of surfing. \u00a0What\u2019s not to love?:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=marksheacom-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1587313774&amp;asins=1587313774&amp;linkId=XRRGOHSOCO7RTVX3&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" 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