{"id":51966,"date":"2016-08-12T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51966"},"modified":"2016-08-12T03:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T03:48:53","slug":"the-saints-of-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51966","title":{"rendered":"The saints of television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on St Clare&#8217;s feast, two tales of miraculous television, and the fragmented memory of a third ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Today, August 11th, is in the Catholic calendar the Feast of St <strong>Clare of Assisi<\/strong>, friend of St <strong>Francis<\/strong> and patron saint of television:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SPEC-DQ-miracles-of-television.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ miracles of television\" width=\"600\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SPEC-DQ-miracles-of-television.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SPEC-DQ-miracles-of-television-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In celebrating her day, I cannot but remember the Sufi <strong>al-Sha&#8217;rani<\/strong>, whose capacity #20 as recorded in <strong>Arberry<\/strong>&#8216;s little book has long delighted me.<\/p>\n<p>I believe similar, more detailed stories are told of other Sufi saints, one of whom (if memory serves) saw and greeted from Spain a master in Damascus or Baghdad with whom he would subsequently meet.<\/p>\n<p>I should look into that.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; on St Clare&#8217;s feast, two tales of miraculous television, and the fragmented memory of a third ] . Today, August 11th, is in the Catholic calendar the Feast of St Clare of Assisi, friend of St Francis and patron saint of television: In celebrating her day, I cannot but remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,888,45,753,1131,1207,714,440,1005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-francis","category-iraq","category-islam","category-miracle","category-spain","category-sufi","category-syria","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51971,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966\/revisions\/51971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}