{"id":30999,"date":"2012-02-22T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_op-ed_verlyn_klinkenborg-in_a_lenten_season\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:30:13","slug":"ny_times_op-ed_verlyn_klinkenborg-in_a_lenten_season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30999","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Op-Ed) Verlyn Klinkenborg&#8211;In a Lenten Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may think of Lent as a time to make up for the excesses of Mardi Gras. But Lent, which begins&#8230; [today], isn\u2019t a time of recovery. To Christians, it\u2019s a 40-day season of preparation for Easter, the holiest day in the liturgical year. But the idea of Lent can be embraced by all of us, religious or otherwise&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are not a naturally ascetic people, and it shows. Fasting lies at the heart of Lent, and most of us are not fasters. We choose our Lenten sacrifices from a very short menu.<\/p>\n<p>But what if this were really a season for renunciation, even for non-believers?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/in-a-lenten-season.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may think of Lent as a time to make up for the excesses of Mardi Gras. But Lent, which begins&#8230; [today], isn\u2019t a time of recovery. To Christians, it\u2019s a 40-day season of preparation for Easter, the holiest day<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30999\">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":[48,39,42,187,569,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-lent","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999","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=30999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}