{"id":7159,"date":"2010-01-22T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:46:24","slug":"how-to-live-a-simple-life-the-little-flowers-of-st-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-live-a-simple-life-the-little-flowers-of-st-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Live A Simple Life: The Little Flowers of St. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Anglican priest is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/anglican.priest.lives.without.money.for.new.bbc.series\/25132.htm\" target=\"_blank\">trying to live a simple life<\/a> just like St. Francis of Assisi. While making this attempt he will be followed around by a full BBC production crew, sound equipment, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/01\/21\/article-1245081-07F583FD000005DC-985_468x327.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"163\" \/>cameras and computers recording his every excursion into an urban dustbin. Can\u2019t get much simpler that that. Nice simple hat too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anglican priest Peter Owen Jones has gone back to basics in the search for a simpler way of living life for a new BBC Two series.<\/p>\n<p>How To Live A Simple Life is inspired by St Francis of Assisi who entered into a life of voluntary poverty after hearing a sermon on Matthew 10, in which Jesus tells his disciples to go and proclaim the Kingdom of God without taking any money or other possessions with them.<\/p>\n<p>The series was filmed over eight months in Jones\u2019 small country village of Firle, in Sussex and sees him grow his own crops and raise chickens.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to the road without any cash, Jones has to barter his skills for scraps of food and throw himself at the mercy of his community as well as strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Jones sees the programme as a personal challenge to discover whether the best things in life are really free after feeling like he had become caught in mindless spending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to see if there is another way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the great religions say don&#8217;t rely on money \u2013 it is too much the measure of a life. And I&#8217;m addicted to the stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to see if I can wean myself off it and live a different life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Anglican priest is trying to live a simple life just like St. Francis of Assisi. While making this attempt he will be followed around by a full BBC production crew, sound equipment, cameras and computers recording his every excursion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-live-a-simple-life-the-little-flowers-of-st-jones\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2030],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-anglican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","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=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}