{"id":42109,"date":"2014-01-16T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_bbc_magazine_article_on_fasting\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:30:36","slug":"a_bbc_magazine_article_on_fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42109","title":{"rendered":"A BBC Magazine Article on Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting is not just physically demanding. It&#8217;s also psychologically tough, says the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend David Walker, who has drunk only tea and water one day a week during lent for the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The night before you start, you think: &#8216;How am I going to get through the day?'&#8221; says Bishop Walker. But it&#8217;s never as bad as you expect, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The key thing is to make sure you&#8217;re busy at normal mealtimes, he says. The body is conditioned to want food according to a routine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-25592458\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting is not just physically demanding. It&#8217;s also psychologically tough, says the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend David Walker, who has drunk only tea and water one day a week during lent for the last decade. &#8220;The night<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42109\">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":[36,48,39,74,175,186,389,635,100,168,188,34,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109","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=42109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}