{"id":30853,"date":"2012-02-14T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/penn_class_teaches_students_how_to_live_like_monks\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T22:01:10","slug":"penn_class_teaches_students_how_to_live_like_monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30853","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Penn Class Teaches Students How To Live Like Monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don&#8217;t sign up for Justin McDaniel&#8217;s religious studies class.<\/p>\n<p>The associate professor&#8217;s course on monastic life and asceticism gives students at the University of Pennsylvania a firsthand experience of what it&#8217;s like to be a monk.<\/p>\n<p>At various periods during the semester, students must forego technology, coffee, physical human contact and certain foods. They&#8217;ll also have to wake up at 5 a.m. \u201d\u201d without an alarm clock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=146741833&#038;ft=1&#038;f=\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don&#8217;t sign up for Justin McDaniel&#8217;s religious studies class. The associate professor&#8217;s course on monastic life and asceticism gives students at the University of Pennsylvania a firsthand experience of what it&#8217;s like to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30853\">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":[48,39,111,108,188,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853","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=30853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}