{"id":2572,"date":"2007-06-26T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:34","slug":"the-sermon-on-the-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-sermon-on-the-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sermon on the Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>John Dear<\/strong>, a Jesuit priest and peace activist, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahatma_Gandhi\">Mahatma Gandhi<\/a><\/strong> read from the Sermon on the Mount twice a day for the last 40 years of his life.<br \/>\n&#8220;He considered these texts the greatest writings on nonviolence in the history of the world. Since he wanted to become a person of nonviolence, he treated these teachings as a basic primer, as the catechism of nonviolence.&#8221;<br \/>\nI wonder how many times most Christians have read Matthew 5-7.<br \/>\nHat tip to <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/religion.beloblog.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/valuable_lesson.html\">DMN<\/span> for the info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to John Dear, a Jesuit priest and peace activist, Mahatma Gandhi read from the Sermon on the Mount twice a day for the last 40 years of his life. &#8220;He considered these texts the greatest writings on nonviolence in the history of the world. Since he wanted to become a person of nonviolence, he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-sermon-on-the-mount\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sermon on the Mount<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-misc","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10806,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}