{"id":1878,"date":"2010-11-25T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:27","slug":"prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even overseas readers will probably be aware that the Pike River Mine explosion on the West Coast of our South Island has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/pike-river-mine-explosion\/4384859\/Second-blast-destroys-all-hope-for-relatives\">ended badly<\/a> &#8211; after five days with conditions too unsafe for rescue, another explosion has nullified the small chance that anyone in there had survived. 29 people have died.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have anything much to say about this. It&#8217;s dominating everything in NZ, not least because we&#8217;re a small country and a lot of people have ties to the region and the families. But it would feel strange not to mention it here.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend, the front pages of three out of four Sunday papers at one shop showed people praying. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/pike-river-mine-explosion\/4385288\/Pike-River-Prayers-tears-and-heartache\">The prayer stories continue today<\/a>. It&#8217;s out of step with the usually secular approach of our media, but I think it&#8217;s an appropriate reflection of the mood of the nation. It&#8217;s a reflective time right now, even for those who don&#8217;t pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even overseas readers will probably be aware that the Pike River Mine explosion on the West Coast of our South Island has ended badly &#8211; after five days with conditions too unsafe for rescue, another explosion has nullified the small chance that anyone in there had survived. 29 people have died. I don&#8217;t have anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also","tag-nz-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8D9ZE-prayers","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}