{"id":495,"date":"2018-07-15T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2018-07-15T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:05:23","slug":"to-pray-and-to-play-and-to-sway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"To Pray and to Play (and to Sway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?attachment_id=496\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-496 size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lithograph-of-a-ca.-1829-religious-camp-meeting-Alexander-Rider-1200x830-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lithograph-of-a-ca.-1829-religious-camp-meeting-Alexander-Rider-1200x830-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lithograph-of-a-ca.-1829-religious-camp-meeting-Alexander-Rider-1200x830-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lithograph-of-a-ca.-1829-religious-camp-meeting-Alexander-Rider-1200x830-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lithograph-of-a-ca.-1829-religious-camp-meeting-Alexander-Rider-1200x830.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>At the Chautauqua Institution in New York this past week the theme was &#8220;The Art of Play&#8221;. A variety of speakers looked at the importance of play in our daily lives. My presentation tied into that theme. I spoke about the old-time camp meetings. Not only were they used to strengthen the faith of the believers and to convert the sinner, they were a time of social interaction and play. Folks on the frontier were often isolated, so the camp meeting was a time to renew acquaintances\u00a0and for the younger folks, it was a time to play (and for courting). The image is an artistic rendition of a camp meeting in the 1830s.\u00a0 When people were convicted by the Holy Spirit some would sway. If you look on page 3 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-OLeswUAyh_cRFuUpO_n0YbzIUeQy2Jo\/view\">Daily\u00a0Chautauquan<\/a> you can learn more about the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Chautauqua Institution in New York this past week the theme was &#8220;The Art of Play&#8221;. A variety of speakers looked at the importance of play in our daily lives. My presentation tied into that theme. I spoke about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}