{"id":18392,"date":"2010-03-11T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_well_blog-most_believe_god_gets_involved\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:00:31","slug":"ny_times_well_blog-most_believe_god_gets_involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18392","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Well Blog&#8211;Most Believe God Gets Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d\u009d judge Simon Cowell recently predicted the departure of the contestant Jermaine Sellers, the young singer shook his head in disagreement. \u201cI know God,\u2019\u2019 he replied, pointing upward.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, when Mr. Sellers failed to make the cut, he still had faith. \u201cWhat God has for me is for me,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIn God there is no failure.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sellers is not alone in his belief that God pays attention to reality television contests. New research shows that most Americans believe God is directly involved in their personal affairs, and that the good or bad things that happen are \u201cpart of God\u2019s plan,\u2019\u2019 according to a report in the March issue of the journal Sociology of Religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/10\/most-believe-god-gets-involved\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d\u009d judge Simon Cowell recently predicted the departure of the contestant Jermaine Sellers, the young singer shook his head in disagreement. \u201cI know God,\u2019\u2019 he replied, pointing upward. Two days later, when Mr. Sellers failed to make<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18392\">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":[39,50,209,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392","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=18392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}