{"id":408,"date":"2010-06-17T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/cults.html"},"modified":"2010-06-17T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:12:00","slug":"cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/cults\/","title":{"rendered":"Cults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the book that I&#8217;m working on now, I&#8217;ve got a major emotional conflict involved. When he was a young boy, the hero&#8217;s mother was involved in a religious cult, and it ultimately led to her death. The negative experience has colored his view of all religions and he has nothing to do with Jesus as a result of his boyhood experience. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I was wondering if anybody reading this blog has ever been involved with a cult or know someone who has? If you did, what was your\/their experience like? How did you\/they get out of the organization? If you feel like sharing the name of the cult, that would be fine, but it&#8217;s not necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This inquiring mind wants to know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/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>In the book that I&#8217;m working on now, I&#8217;ve got a major emotional conflict involved. When he was a young boy, the hero&#8217;s mother was involved in a religious cult, and it ultimately led to her death. The negative experience has colored his view of all religions and he has nothing to do with Jesus [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saovYP-cults","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}