{"id":256,"date":"1997-07-29T09:24:12","date_gmt":"1997-07-29T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-01-20T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T04:49:44","slug":"counsels-on-the-spiritual-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/counsels-on-the-spiritual-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Counsels on the Spiritual Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extracted from &agrave; Kempis&#8217; <i>Imitation of Christ<\/i>, this is more a practical guide to self-mastery than a religious text. But then, I define &#8220;spirituality&#8221; as nothing more or less than deliberate self-development. The humility and delicacy of this text stand in refreshing contrast to the heavy-handedness of stereotypical Medieval Orthodoxy, and Christian fundamentalism in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extracted from &agrave; Kempis&#8217; Imitation of Christ, this is more a practical guide to self-mastery than a religious text. But then, I define &#8220;spirituality&#8221; as nothing more or less than deliberate self-development. The humility and delicacy of this text stand in refreshing contrast to the heavy-handedness of stereotypical Medieval Orthodoxy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}