{"id":7398,"date":"2023-10-27T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"a-praiseworthy-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7398","title":{"rendered":"A PRAISEWORTHY LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have pondered Philippians 4:8-9, I have been pulling together a list of (mostly secular) things that hit me as true, noble, lovely, admirable, excellent and\/or praiseworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is what I have so far, in no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><i>Les Miserables<\/i>, both the book and the Broadway Musical.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Any original Bugs Bunny cartoon, especially <i>Rabbit of Seville<\/i> &#8211; &#8220;There, you&#8217;re nice and clean &#8230; although your face &#8211; looks &#8211; like &#8211; it &#8211; might &#8211; have &#8211; gone &#8211; through &#8211; a &#8211; ma-chine.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The <i>Calvin and Hobbes <\/i>comic strip.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The old <i>Peanuts <\/i>comic strip with Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Snoopy.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ryan George&#8217;s Pitch Meetings on YouTube.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Any music by Weird Al Yankovic or Ray Stevens.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Tim Burton&#8217;s movie <i>Big Fish<\/i>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Little Shop of Horrors<\/i>, directed by Frank Oz.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A little known movie called <i>Local Hero<\/i>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The short story &#8220;A Mother in Mannville&#8221; by Marjory Kinnan Rawlings.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Beethoven&#8217;s <i>Symphony Number 9 (Ode to Joy)<\/i>. Handel&#8217;s <i>Hallelujah Chorus<\/i>. Anything by Mozart.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>The Cottonpatch Gospel<\/i> by Harry Chapin.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The writings of Adrian Plass, British Christian humorist.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Influence <\/i>by Robert Cialdini.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The music videos of OK Go.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The poetry of Robert Frost.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud<\/i> by William Wordsworth.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Mother to Son<\/i>\u00a0and <i>Dream Deferred<\/i> by Langston Hughes.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Our Town <\/i>by Thornton Wilder.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The original Winnie the Pooh stories.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Paintings by Norman Rockwell.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Rembrandt&#8217;s painting\u00a0<i>The Return of the Prodigal Son<\/i>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The original <i>Muppet Movie <\/i>and the <i>Muppet Christmas Carol<\/i>.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>In fact, any version of <i>A Christmas Carol.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n<li>And since I&#8217;ve brought up Christmas, <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life <\/i>and\u00a0<i>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i>.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Hallelujah <\/i>by Leonard Cohen.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Believer <\/i>and <i>Thunder\u00a0<\/i>by Imagine Dragons.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li><i>Morning Has Broken<\/i> by Cat Stevens.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Any old comedy featuring Bob Newhart, Victor Borge, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The Three Stooges.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Banjo music.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s on YOUR list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have pondered Philippians 4:8-9, I have been pulling together a list of (mostly secular) things that hit me as true, noble, lovely, admirable, excellent and\/or praiseworthy. Here is what I have so far, in no particular order: What&#8217;s on YOUR list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}