{"id":295,"date":"2009-08-25T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/08\/quote-of-the-day-4.html"},"modified":"2009-08-25T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:09:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/08\/quote-of-the-day-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhen you fall, people push you down even more. The world is full of materialism and envy.  When you are famous and you fall, people don\u2019t want you to come back. It is almost impossible to come back. It\u2019s hard enough the first time, but the second time it\u2019s like you don\u2019t even exist \u2026God gave me a second chance, the guy upstairs helped me out.\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; Actor Mickey Rourke, explaining his Catholic faith to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=16927\">a Bosnian newspaper<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you fall, people push you down even more. The world is full of materialism and envy. When you are famous and you fall, people don\u2019t want you to come back. It is almost impossible to come back. 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