{"id":67846,"date":"2011-10-16T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67846\/poem-spiritual-exercise\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:29:28","slug":"poem-spiritual-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/67846\/poem-spiritual-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Spiritual Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><em><strong>This poem was written to the art included, by Cecile Dufour, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/67805\/simple-sunday-featuring-interweavings-cecile-dufour\/\">CPC&#8217;s weekly Simple Sunday picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The title and text were also inspired by Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola&#8217;s &#8220;Spiritual Exercises&#8221; book designed to convert Jesuit recruits. \u00a0An important part of the Exercises was to have recruits do just what the poem suggests. \u00a0Apparently it often worked because the Jesuits became arguably the most devoted group of Christian missionaries.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/?action=view&amp;current=SSArt101611-2-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/PicnPoems\/SSArt101611-2-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written to the art included, by Cecile Dufour, in the CPC&#8217;s weekly Simple Sunday picture challenge. \u00a0The title and text were also inspired by Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola&#8217;s &#8220;Spiritual Exercises&#8221; book designed to convert Jesuit recruits. \u00a0An important part of the Exercises was to have recruits do just what the poem suggests. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}