{"id":27,"date":"2023-08-20T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:28:02","slug":"what-praying-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2023\/08\/20\/what-praying-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What praying is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-693\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cosmic_bellhop-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"A cartoon bellhop drawing with space in the background\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cosmic_bellhop-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cosmic_bellhop-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cosmic_bellhop.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18.75px;\"><i>The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Herbert J. Muller, educator, historian, and author (1905-1980)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18.75px;\"><i>I am so glad I don&#8217;t waste my time on begging to an invisible, magical, mean-spirited, aloof arrogant jerk who, in fact, does not exist.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8212; me (1966 &#8211; ?)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. &#8212; Herbert J. Muller, educator, historian, and author (1905-1980) I am so glad I don&#8217;t waste my time on begging to an invisible, magical, mean-spirited, aloof arrogant jerk who, in fact, does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rants","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}