{"id":10547,"date":"2011-11-08T00:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10547"},"modified":"2011-11-08T00:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:46:59","slug":"blessing-place-or-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/11\/blessing-place-or-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Place or Persons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/BreakingNews\/Singapore\/Story\/STIStory_731100.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10548\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/916-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/916.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/916.jpg?resize=96%2C64&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/916.jpg?w=330&amp;ssl=1 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Royston Sim [The Straits Times]: &#8216;For 40 minutes on Saturday morning, representatives from eight religions took turns to recite prayers at Bedok Reservoir.\u00a0They were blessing the area after the recent spate of deaths [6 suicides] there.\u00a0The prayer event by religious representatives from the Inter-Religious Organisation&#8230;&#8217; (Photo: Raj Nadarajan)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong>\u00a0If the idea was just to bless the area in a general way, it&#8217;s alright. But it isn&#8217;t exactly a good idea to have share prayers from many religions if the intention is to urge any wandering spirits to take on a good rebirth &#8211; because the mixed messages can be confusing or even frustrating for them? It would be better to check which religions the deceased were inclined towards to help guide them accordingly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Royston Sim [The Straits Times]: &#8216;For 40 minutes on Saturday morning, representatives from eight religions took turns to recite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[487,106],"class_list":["post-10547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings","tag-blessing","tag-rebirth","wpcat-268-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}