{"id":10663,"date":"2009-01-12T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dina_mann_virtual_church_cant_replace_real_thing\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:15:24","slug":"dina_mann_virtual_church_cant_replace_real_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10663","title":{"rendered":"Dina Mann: Virtual church can&#39;t replace real thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently asked a client that I care for about his feelings on televised and virtual church services. He watches them often because illness prevents him from attending &#8220;real church.&#8221; He said he felt &#8220;alone&#8221; because there were no people physically around him. He felt disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>My own experience of online prayer and worship is also along these lines. For awhile I attended Compline online and felt a sense of desolation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/80050_104170_ENG_HTM.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently asked a client that I care for about his feelings on televised and virtual church services. He watches them often because illness prevents him from attending &#8220;real church.&#8221; He said he felt &#8220;alone&#8221; because there were no people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10663\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,94,66,183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}