{"id":27,"date":"2008-02-06T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/02\/06\/sociologist-proposes-lent-as-a-time-of-financial-sacrifice\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T21:14:43","slug":"sociologist-proposes-lent-as-a-time-of-financial-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/02\/06\/sociologist-proposes-lent-as-a-time-of-financial-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist proposes Lent as a time of financial sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/02\/money.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"money.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/business\/story\/406482.html\">Miami Herald reports<\/a> the recent recommendation from sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/sociology\/index.cfm?id=703A970C-F769-0D72-8C25832318A59142\">Michele Dillon<\/a> to use lent as a time of financial sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lent is traditionally a period of self-denial, so this might a good time to also focus on economic austerity, said Michele Dillon, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who studies religion, particularly Roman Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What&#8217;s different this year is many people who feel under economic pressure to give up things can at least use the season of Lent as an opportunity,&#8217; Dillon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They can think, &#8220;I&#8217;m also doing this for religious purposes as well as lifestyle and economic purposes.&#8221;&#8221;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Herald reports the recent recommendation from sociologist Michele Dillon to use lent as a time of financial sacrifice. &#8220;Lent is traditionally a period of self-denial, so this might a good time to also focus on economic austerity, said Michele Dillon, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who studies religion, particularly Roman Catholicism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[131,42],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economy","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}