{"id":8488,"date":"2021-10-31T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8488"},"modified":"2021-10-31T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T21:25:08","slug":"theres-nothing-i-love-better-than-jesus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8488","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s nothing I love better than Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Gale Acuff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>except my parents and my dog and my<br>favorite professional sports teams and<br>favorite wrestler, Ricky &#8220;the Dragon&#8221;\u00a0<br>Steamboat, and Batman comics and pizza<br>puffs and my dog\u2014oh, I mentioned him\u2014and<br>I guess my sister and dinosaurs and<br>the new bike I&#8217;ll get for Christmas and<br>clams with mashed potatoes and coleslaw and<br>when we have corn dogs in the school lunchroom<br>and that\u00a0<em>Phantom<\/em>\u00a0movie that nobody<br>else ever saw, Hell, it wasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0bad,<br>and monster truck rallies and skateboarders\u00a0<br>falling on their butts\u2014that&#8217;s pretty funny<br>and they always rise again anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GALE ACUFF<\/strong>\u00a0has published hundreds of poems in over a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gale Acuff except my parents and my dog and myfavorite professional sports teams andfavorite wrestler, Ricky &#8220;the Dragon&#8221;\u00a0Steamboat, and Batman comics and pizzapuffs and my dog\u2014oh, I mentioned him\u2014andI guess my sister and dinosaurs andthe new bike I&#8217;ll get for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8485,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2cU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8488\/revisions\/8497"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}