{"id":745,"date":"2014-08-04T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/?p=745"},"modified":"2014-08-04T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T01:46:17","slug":"the-catholic-gateway-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/745","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Gateway Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Kraeger describes his ascent into Catholic spirituality be beginning with just three simple Hail Marys a day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Once upon a time I was a teenage Catholic who wanted to go to heaven when I died, someday. I figured I would get the going to heaven thing taken care of and then get down to the business of living life, knowing that I had the afterlife under control. I suppose there was a sort of wisdom in that. That is, I recognized a fundamental principle that \u201cwhat does it matter if one gains the whole world, if you pay for it by losing your soul.\u201d I realized that it would be a bit embarrassing if I made it through life acheiving all sorts of great things, and found that I had missed the grade by a few Masses or a good confession. So I set out to find for myself what I had to do to get to heaven.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitumtoday.com\/2014\/08\/04\/hail-mary-catholic-gateway-drug\/\">Ignitum Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Kraeger describes his ascent into Catholic spirituality be beginning with just three simple Hail Marys a day. Once upon a time I was a teenage Catholic who wanted to go to heaven when I died, someday. I figured I would get the going to heaven thing taken care of and then get down to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/745\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-found-on-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}