{"id":14626,"date":"2016-11-30T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2016-11-30T04:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:57:07","slug":"certainly-need-lot-like-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/11\/certainly-need-lot-like-today.html","title":{"rendered":"We Certainly Could Use a Lot More Like Him Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"Mark-Twain-with-Cat-on-His-Shoulder\"$ <\/a>
\n Samuel Langhorne Clemens<\/a> was born on this day in 1835.<\/p>\n

As a writer he first started using the pen name \u201cJosh,\u201d and later \u201cThomas Jefferson Snodgrass,\u201d until finally settling on \u201cMark Twain.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said a lot of things worth hearing.<\/p>\n

Sure could use him today\u2026<\/p>\n

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