{"id":667,"date":"2025-07-05T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/?p=667"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T15:05:24","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acting Governor Dan Patrick (gross) and Senator Ted Cruz (gag me) are begging people to pray for the people lost in the hill country flooding. Let me be frank: Prayer does nothing. Commenting &#8220;Prayers&#8221; on a tragic Facebook post is laughable. Those people aren&#8217;t even actually praying. They&#8217;re just typing a word &#8211; a worthless word. Prayer is a way of absolving yourself from taking actual action. If you feel like you can help, then help. In real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Governor Dan Patrick (gross) and Senator Ted Cruz (gag me) are begging people to pray for the people lost in the hill country flooding. Let me be frank: Prayer does nothing. Commenting &#8220;Prayers&#8221; on a tragic Facebook post is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikev.in\/ax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}