{"id":3879,"date":"2019-04-01T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/prayer-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:13:03","slug":"prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/prayer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Do you pray for worldly benefits and boons such as bodily health and material wealth, whether for yourself or for others? Or do you pray for spiritual goods such as detachment? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Do you pray that your desires be fulfilled and your aversions avoided? Or do you you pray to get beyond desire and aversion?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I should have pressed these questions in my dialog with Dale Tuggy over the weekend. His spirituality is more &#39;materialistic&#39; while mine is more &#39;gnostic.&#39; I readily admit that there are problems on both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you pray for worldly benefits and boons such as bodily health and material wealth, whether for yourself or for others? Or do you pray for spiritual goods such as detachment? Do you pray that your desires be fulfilled and your aversions avoided? Or do you you pray to get beyond desire and aversion? I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/prayer-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prayer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}