{"id":1764,"date":"2009-06-27T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T03:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2009-06-27T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T03:39:18","slug":"money-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1764","title":{"rendered":"Money ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gifteconomy.org\/downloads\/index.xml\">Charles Eisenstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Money is a system of magical talismans that are used ritualistically. A lot of things around money are ritualistic &#8212; signing a cheque is a ritual. What makes that slip of paper powerful? You have to use a ritual to make it powerful. Rituals in any society are what a society uses to perpetuate its stories. The story of the people, and many subsidiary stories. And these stories are what assign roles to people, and focus human activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Eisenstein: Money is a system of magical talismans that are used ritualistically. A lot of things around money are ritualistic &#8212; signing a cheque is a ritual. What makes that slip of paper powerful? You have to use a ritual to make it powerful. Rituals in any society are what a society uses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovideo","category-general","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}