{"id":2700,"date":"2013-08-06T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Daybook\/Sitting-with-Shakers\/ba-p\/11075"},"modified":"2013-08-06T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:30:00","slug":"sitting-with-shakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/06\/sitting-with-shakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting with Shakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 6:<\/strong> Mother Ann Lee and a handful of Shaker followers arrived in America on this day in 1774. The Shakers (the United Society of Believers in Christ&#8217;s Second Appearing) found many applications of Mother Ann&#8217;s famous advice to &#8220;Put your hands to work and your hearts to God,&#8221; one of them in furniture: &#8220;The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it&#8221; (Thomas Merton).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6: Mother Ann Lee and a handful of Shaker followers arrived in America on this day in 1774. The Shakers (the United Society of Believers in Christ&#8217;s Second Appearing) found many applications of Mother Ann&#8217;s famous advice to &#8220;Put your hands to wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}