{"id":9555,"date":"2023-06-08T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:36:51","slug":"strange-religions-and-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9555","title":{"rendered":"STRANGE RITES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_fWCoSaZsyFjMor&#038;asin=1541762525&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burton\u2019s book combines terrific writing, first-rate reporting, telling illustrations, and the competence of a brilliant scholar. Burton\u2019s Oxford doctorate does not get in the way of writing in an accessible and compelling style.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As many others have said, and I certainly concur, this is a terrific resource to better appreciate the many bizarre ways people embrace the \u201cspiritual.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burton\u2019s book combines terrific writing, first-rate reporting, telling illustrations, and the competence of a brilliant scholar. Burton\u2019s Oxford doctorate does not get in the way of writing in an accessible and compelling style. As many others have said, and I certainly concur, this is a terrific resource to better appreciate the many bizarre ways people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}