{"id":41483,"date":"2013-12-10T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_christopher_howse-the_lonely_virtues_of_a_virtual_prayer_book\/"},"modified":"2013-12-10T17:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T17:00:33","slug":"telegraph_christopher_howse-the_lonely_virtues_of_a_virtual_prayer_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41483","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Christopher Howse&#8211;The lonely virtues of a virtual prayer book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the launch by the Church of England of a phone app that gives the prayers and Bible readings of the day might short-circuit the arcana of religious practice. You could say your prayers with the help of your smartphone on the top deck of a bus.<\/p>\n<p> Or it could be doubly alienating: a barrier for those who don\u2019t know what worshippers get up to at Evensong, to whom Mag and Nunc sound like the names of glove-puppets, and a parallel wall excluding those who don\u2019t really know what an app is. There are such folk.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just test-driven the ordinary online content provided (free) on the Church of England website by clicking on the link \u201cJoin us in Daily Prayer\u201d\u009d&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10494646\/The-lonely-virtues-of-a-virtual-prayer-book.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the launch by the Church of England of a phone app that gives the prayers and Bible readings of the day might short-circuit the arcana of religious practice. You could say your prayers with the help of your smartphone on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41483\">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":[36,48,39,432,74,175,389,172,183,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-book-of-common-prayer","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecclesiology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483","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=41483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}