{"id":3284,"date":"2012-02-24T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T17:23:30","slug":"ash-friday-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/24\/ash-friday-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Friday &#038; Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting. From Judaism to Christianity to Islam to Hinduism to Buddhism &#8212; fasting is observed as a sign of sacrifice. The Reflection for today (Hays, 20<sup>1<\/sup>), is slightly a tough one for me &#8212; I&#8217;m torn between fasting from food and attempting to remain nutritionally-sound given that I do my long marathon training runs on the weekend. But at the same time, there&#8217;s also the topic of <a title=\"Isaiah chapter 58\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/isaiah\/58\/\">Isaiah chapter 58<\/a> which highlights the fast as not only abstaining from your meals but on top of that, <em>sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless, clothing the naked and not turning your backs on your own<\/em>. I&#8217;m going to have to be extra mindful this Lent of <em>that<\/em> other aspect of fasting&#8230;\u00a0 *lightbulb*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1 Hays, E. M. (1995). <em>The Ascent of the Mountain of God: Daily Reflections for the Journey of Lent<\/em>. Leavenworth: Forest of Peace Publishing, Inc.<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting. From Judaism to Christianity to Islam to Hinduism to Buddhism &#8212; fasting is observed as a sign of sacrifice. The Reflection for today (Hays, 201), is slightly a tough one for me &#8212; I&#8217;m torn between fasting from food and attempting to remain nutritionally-sound given that I do my long marathon training runs on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/24\/ash-friday-fasting\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[435,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}