{"id":1529,"date":"2018-05-30T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:23:56","slug":"a-call-to-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"A call to prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many are fasting for various reasons these days, especially right now in the middle of Ramadan. \u00a0As I finished reading a book on fasting, <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?page_id=415\">The Roots and Fruits of Fasting by Mary Ruth Swope<\/a>,\u00a0I ran\u00a0into 5 people who told me\u00a0they were fasting.<\/p>\n<p>I pray when and if\u00a0we fast, we let the feelings of hunger, the rumblings within act as an internal bell tolling and calling us to prayer, calling us into deeper communion with our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Joel 2:12<br \/>\n<em>Even now, declares the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are fasting for various reasons these days, especially right now in the middle of Ramadan. \u00a0As I finished reading a book on fasting, The Roots and Fruits of Fasting by Mary Ruth Swope,\u00a0I ran\u00a0into 5 people who told me\u00a0they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[2270,2265,2266,1881,2267,2268,67,1597,581,1618,92,1503,901,15,2260,2261,297,2263,46,1464,2271,2269,2264,2262],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-ache","tag-bell-tolling","tag-bell-tolls","tag-call","tag-calling","tag-calls-us","tag-christ","tag-communion","tag-fast","tag-fasting","tag-god","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hunger","tag-jesus","tag-joel","tag-joel-212","tag-lord","tag-mary-ann-swope","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-ramadan","tag-rumblings","tag-swope","tag-the-roots-and-fruits-of-fasting"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}