{"id":183,"date":"2011-05-06T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/singing-prayers-into-the-heart-of-the-universe\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:11","slug":"singing-prayers-into-the-heart-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/singing-prayers-into-the-heart-of-the-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"Singing Prayers into the Heart of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">It turns out some people didn\u2019t think Lady Gaga was spiritual enough.\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p>How about Jai Uttal?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4316222746962700019?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out some people didn\u2019t think Lady Gaga was spiritual enough. 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