{"id":61863,"date":"2016-08-12T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=61863"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T18:47:59","slug":"meditation-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/meditation-the-right-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Frivolity: Meditation, the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61864\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Coffee-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I posted this on Facebook one of my friends questioned the authenticity of this quotation. It comes from Sheen&#8217;s &#8220;The Priest Is Not His Own&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>&#8220;The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee. And that goes for prayer too. Even sisters in convents whose rules were written before electric percolators were developed would do well to update their procedures. Let them have coffee before meditation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8211; Fulton Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;with that said, I&#8217;m now off for a cup of tea \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I posted this on Facebook one of my friends questioned the authenticity of this quotation. It comes from Sheen&#8217;s &#8220;The Priest Is Not His Own&#8221;: &#8220;The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee. And that goes for prayer too. Even sisters in convents whose rules were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1931,70,3774],"class_list":["post-61863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-coffee","tag-fulton-sheen","tag-the-priest-is-not-his-own"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61867,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863\/revisions\/61867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}