{"id":3080,"date":"2017-06-15T00:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T04:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2017-06-14T23:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T03:15:25","slug":"why-do-people-join-cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/why-do-people-join-cults\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Join Cults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have you, or any of your loved ones, been involved in a cult? If so, what happened? Did he\/she\/they get out of the cult? Or, are they still involved in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I was raised Jehovah&#8217;s Witness, I find the subject of cults interesting. This is a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kB-dJaCXAxA\"> good video <\/a>that tells why people join cults.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often thought about doing a series about someone\/some folks in a cult. I&#8217;d tell how each person got out of the organization. Not sure if I&#8217;ll ever write this series, but, it&#8217;s in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, have you ever known anybody who was involved in a cult? Please share details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you, or any of your loved ones, been involved in a cult? If so, what happened? Did he\/she\/they get out of the cult? Or, are they still involved in it? Since I was raised Jehovah&#8217;s Witness, I find the subject of cults interesting. This is a good video that tells why people join cults. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cults"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-NG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}