{"id":11819,"date":"2011-11-17T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:15:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T23:15:55","slug":"spiritual-snooze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/11\/spiritual-snooze\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Snooze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snooze_button.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11820\" title=\"snooze_button\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snooze_button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a> In the spiritual life it is so easy to hit the snooze button on a more dedicated life of prayer. On alarm clocks the snooze button lets us pretend we are setting a goal by setting the alarm knowing that we can also just keep hitting the snooze button to advance that goal just a little bit farther into the future.<\/p>\n<p>It is so easy to set the snooze button in the life of prayer by &#8220;Well I will get more serious in Lent.&#8221;, or &#8220;Just as soon as I get passed this current hectic phrase of life.&#8221; Of course when Lent comes and goes that spiritual snooze button gets hit once again and that hectic phase of life just never seems to end.<\/p>\n<p>When you come across scripture such as St. Paul saying to &#8220;pray always&#8221;, well you will get around to it tomorrow or perhaps at another milestone. \u00a0 Start praying the Rosary more regularly &#8211; hit the spiritual snooze button and you will get around to it later.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I can only find a way to disable my own spiritual snooze button, sounds like a good job for tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spiritual life it is so easy to hit the snooze button on a more dedicated life of prayer. On alarm clocks the snooze button lets us pretend we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}