{"id":63842,"date":"2017-01-11T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=63842"},"modified":"2017-01-19T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:38:57","slug":"coffee-before-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/coffee-before-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Coffee before prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first-child \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14545\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching.jpg\" alt=\"Sheen Preaching\" width=\"860\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching.jpg 575w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">&#8220;The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee.\u00a0 And that goes for prayer too. \u00a0Even sisters in convents whose rules were written before electric percolators were developed would do well to update their procedures.\u00a0 Let them have coffee before meditation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=intthewes-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1586170449\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a shareable image of this quotation, <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Coffee-and-Spoon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee.\u00a0 And that goes for prayer too. \u00a0Even sisters in convents whose rules were written before electric percolators were developed would do well to update their procedures.\u00a0 Let them have coffee before meditation&#8221; \u2013 Fulton J. Sheen, The Priest Is<\/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":[423],"tags":[1931,4229,741,70,4228,668],"class_list":["post-63842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-coffee","tag-contemplation","tag-convent","tag-fulton-sheen","tag-meditation","tag-nun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842","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=63842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63968,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842\/revisions\/63968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}