{"id":24318,"date":"2009-02-09T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-monastic-taster-weekend\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T23:53:00","slug":"the-monastic-taster-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-monastic-taster-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monastic Taster Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for this? Try out the religious (monastic) life <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7875773.stm\">just for a weekend<\/a>. If you like the experience, come back and stay. The best the English religious orders have to offer! I suppose when you have problems getting people to enter the religious life you have to create &#8220;fun&#8221; things to attract newbies. The BBC article reports: &#8220;In 1982, there were 217 novices in the Catholic Church in England and Wales but by 2007 that figure had dropped to 29.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for this? Try out the religious (monastic) life just for a weekend. If you like the experience, come back and stay. The best the English religious orders have to offer! I suppose when you have problems getting people to enter the religious life you have to create &#8220;fun&#8221; things to attract newbies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-monastic-taster-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Monastic Taster Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11],"tags":[1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}