{"id":1251,"date":"2007-08-28T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/08\/voice-of-the-day-joan-chittist-3.html"},"modified":"2007-08-28T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T09:09:03","slug":"voice-of-the-day-joan-chittist-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/08\/voice-of-the-day-joan-chittist-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Joan Chittister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study is hard work. It is so much easier to find something else to do in its place than to stay at the grind of it. We have excuses aplenty for avoiding the dull, hard, daily attempt to learn. There is always something so much more important to do than reading. 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