{"id":3102,"date":"2008-06-18T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/06\/quote-of-the-day-54.html"},"modified":"2008-06-18T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:10:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/06\/quote-of-the-day-54.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It has all been said so eloquently in the tributes that have come from some of the highest authorities in our nation and even around the world. &#8230; All that remains is to say thank you to the good and gracious God who gave us Tim Russert for 58 years and to pray that the beloved anchor of &#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; is now sitting at the large table of the Lord to begin a conversation which will last forever.&#8221; &#8212; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired Archbishop of Washington, celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5il6nQvlsdNmR-ifE_Wr6IssLT-GQD91CI45G0\">the funeral mass<\/a> for Tim Russert at Washington&#8217;s Holy Trinity Church this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It has all been said so eloquently in the tributes that have come from some of the highest authorities in our nation and even around the world. &#8230; 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