{"id":74,"date":"2008-02-14T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/14\/light-those-candles-when-you-pray\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:03:30","slug":"light-those-candles-when-you-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/14\/light-those-candles-when-you-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Light those candles when you pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It would be surprising to meet a monk or a talmudic scholar or a minister who would say, \u201cyes, we burn the incense or turn down the lights or ring these bells or light these candles as a way of creating a room where people are more likely to believe in their prayers,\u201d but of course that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing. (and you know what? there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.)<\/p>\n<p>-Seth Godin (brilliant marketing author)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Godin is a smart guy and I really enjoy his writing. He is no theologian though so he may not be keen as to what other motivations there could be for this kind of behavior. Obviously there is more to it than what he is describing, but it&#8217;s certainly a legitimate side-effect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be surprising to meet a monk or a talmudic scholar or a minister who would say, \u201cyes, we burn the incense or turn down the lights or ring these bells or light these candles as a way of creating a room where people are more likely to believe in their prayers,\u201d but of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/14\/light-those-candles-when-you-pray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light those candles when you pray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-culture-and-liturgy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}