{"id":185,"date":"2007-07-05T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-07-05T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T10:55:00","slug":"reading-scriptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/reading-scriptures.html","title":{"rendered":"Reading the scriptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, about 8-9 months ago, I signed up at a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readthescriptures.com\">readthescriptures.com<\/a>.  The basic premise of the site is that you pick the book of scripture that you want to read (Book of Mormon, Old or New Testaments of the Bible, Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price), and the reading schedule that you want (you can do either a chapter or a day, or you pick when you want to end and it will divide up the book into chunks so that you will end at the specified day)<\/p>\n<p>Once you have picked your book and your reading schedule, it will send you a daily reading schedule to your email.  Having read the Book of Mormon several times, I decided to go with the New Testament, and one chapter per day.  So, every morning, I&#8217;d have an email with one chapter of the New Testament in my inbox.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a pretty good system to get, but it never really worked out for me.  Although I did finish the whole book (finishing 243 days later, on this past Tuesday), it kind of felt like just a chore to do every day, rather than getting any joy or pleasure or enlightenment out of it.  It was more just like one thing to do to clean out the inbox, and I would often find myself skimming through the chapter, just to get it done. <\/p>\n<p>So, I think that I will not be using this for any more books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, about 8-9 months ago, I signed up at a site called readthescriptures.com. The basic premise of the site is that you pick the book of scripture that you want to read (Book of Mormon, Old or New Testaments of the Bible, Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price), and the reading schedule that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}