{"id":1042,"date":"2007-05-24T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/05\/passion-of-paris-hilton.html"},"modified":"2007-05-24T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T10:54:00","slug":"passion-of-paris-hilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/05\/passion-of-paris-hilton.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of Paris Hilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/paris_idol.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>What is it about prison&#8211;or just the prospect of it&#8211;that makes people find religion? Headed for a 23-day sentence that begins June 5, socialite Paris Hilton has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05232007\/gossip\/pagesix\/for_paris__its_time_to_pray_pagesix_.htm\" target=\"_new\">spotted<\/a> toting the Bible and the nondenominational meditation &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment\/dp\/1577314808\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/102-4415432-9618546?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;amp;amp;amp;qid=1179950444&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_new\">The Power of Now<\/a>&#8221; by Eckhart Tolle. The question is, will she be taking these tomes with her into the big house?<\/p>\n<p>Other famous jailbirds&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Born-Again-Charles-W-Colson\/dp\/0800786335\" target=\"_new\">Charles Colson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adherents.com\/largecom\/famconv_islam.html\">Mike Tyson<\/a> come to mind&#8211;have emerged from the slammer with a newfound faith. Paris is the first we can think of who has stocked up on spiritual resources going in. Or maybe, having <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ljworld.com\/news\/2007\/may\/05\/45day_jail_sentence_brings_hilton_tears\/\" target=\"_new\">blamed her &#8220;advisers&#8221;<\/a> for letting her violate parole, she&#8217;s finally got herself very good public relations help&#8211;no, not the Good Lord, but a PR rep out to change her image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about prison&#8211;or just the prospect of it&#8211;that makes people find religion? Headed for a 23-day sentence that begins June 5, socialite Paris Hilton has been spotted toting the Bible and the nondenominational meditation &#8220;The Power of Now&#8221; by Eckhart Tolle. The question is, will she be taking these tomes with her into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Passion of Paris Hilton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/05\/passion-of-paris-hilton.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Passion of Paris Hilton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is it about prison&#8211;or just the prospect of it&#8211;that makes people find religion? 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