{"id":38,"date":"2012-08-03T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-08-03T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T14:21:11","slug":"gratitude-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gratitude-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/flunking-sainthood.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39 alignleft\" title=\"Flunking Sainthood\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flunking-Sainthood-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flunking-Sainthood-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flunking-Sainthood-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Flunking-Sainthood.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>Join Jana Reiss, author of Flunking Sainthood, on a challenge to experience gratitude in a whole new way this August. More details available at <a title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/208828252578997\/\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/208828252578997\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/208828252578997\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Named one of <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s Top 100 Books of 2011!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Reiss begins with great plans for success (&#8220;Really, how hard could that be?&#8221; she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing &#8211; not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Jana Reiss, author of Flunking Sainthood, on a challenge to experience gratitude in a whole new way this August. More details available at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/208828252578997\/ Named one of Publishers Weekly&#8216;s Top 100 Books of 2011! This wry memoir tackles twelve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/gratitude-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}