{"id":856,"date":"2014-10-14T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/?p=856"},"modified":"2014-10-14T02:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T07:53:36","slug":"the-dominican-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/856","title":{"rendered":"The Dominican Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the culture at large continues its move away from the Christian moorings that has anchored it in the past there are those who have taken up the question of how Christians should respond. While some have proposed a Benedictine Option of small communities of virtue maintaining a Christian culture. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2014\/10\/the-dominican-option\">First Things<\/a> C.C. Pecknold proposes instead a Dominican Option. The major difference is instead of a withdrawal\u00a0from the world as is a staple of the Benedictine tradition that instead we need to preserve Christian culture and to be evangelistic about our culture such as the Dominican tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the culture at large continues its move away from the Christian moorings that has anchored it in the past there are those who have taken up the question of how Christians should respond. While some have proposed a Benedictine Option of small communities of virtue maintaining a Christian culture. At First Things C.C. Pecknold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/856\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","category-found-on-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}