{"id":81994,"date":"2019-05-28T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81994"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:16:37","slug":"london-times-say-a-little-prayer-for-me-alexa-app-helps-users-to-connect-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81994","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Say a little prayer for me: Alexa app helps users to connect with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In centuries past people went to priests and prophets with questions about the Almighty. Now Christians and the curious are \u201cconnecting with God\u201d through Amazon\u2019s Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands have interacted with the Church of England through the digital assistant since the launch of its own voice-controlled app, or Alexa \u201cskill\u201d, a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Some 9.5 million Britons use smartspeakers such as Amazon\u2019s Echo to answer questions and control devices and the church said that more than 75,000 engaged with its new service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/alexa-say-some-prayers-and-help-me-to-find-god-f0kp9v3zv\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Interesting hierarchy of stories on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thetimes<\/a> front page today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4GIh1aWtds\">pic.twitter.com\/4GIh1aWtds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Mulvaney (@JamieMulvaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieMulvaney\/status\/1133440971578978309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In centuries past people went to priests and prophets with questions about the Almighty. Now Christians and the curious are \u201cconnecting with God\u201d through Amazon\u2019s Alexa. Tens of thousands have interacted with the Church of England through the digital assistant<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=81994\">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":[389,199,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81994","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=81994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81997,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81994\/revisions\/81997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}