{"id":17033,"date":"2012-07-28T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17033"},"modified":"2012-07-28T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T15:13:49","slug":"coming-soon-to-an-anglican-church-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/coming-soon-to-an-anglican-church-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon to an Anglican Church near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pray-O-Mat, the latest in fully automatic, multi-faith praying machines, the <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-bc\/the-diocese-of-b-c-opens-a-multi-faith-chapel-in-its-cathedral\/\" target=\"_blank\">envy<\/a> of every <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">right<\/span> left-thinking Anglican bishop in Canada:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17034\" title=\"prayermachine\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/prayermachine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-18981821\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A multi-faith praying machine called the Pray-O-Mat has been installed at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The specially converted photo booth offers more than 300 pre-recorded prayers and incantations in 65 different languages via a touch screen.<\/p>\n<p>The free-to-use machine, designed by German artist Oliver Sturm, is part of a three-year project on multi-faith spaces by the university.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer choices include Aborigine devotional songs and Jewish chants.<\/p>\n<p>The machine also features Our Father in German and English, and Buddhist and Islamic prayers among others.<\/p>\n<p>A research team has visited almost 250 multi-faith spaces in the UK and abroad collecting prayers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pray-O-Mat, the latest in fully automatic, multi-faith praying machines, the envy of every right left-thinking Anglican bishop in Canada: &nbsp; From here: A multi-faith praying machine called the Pray-O-Mat has been installed at the University of Manchester. The specially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/coming-soon-to-an-anglican-church-near-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[2125],"class_list":["post-17033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecumenism","tag-ecumenism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}