{"id":2318,"date":"2012-03-05T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-03-05T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:04:15","slug":"journal-transfer:-2\/26\/2012:-my-first-bible-reading\/scriptural-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Journal Transfer: 2\/26\/2012: My first Bible Reading\/Scriptural Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTwo Sundays ago, I had the opportunity of Bible reading in English. I practiced hard for it...despite their praises, I thank God and hope that His word is preached clearly. That it will encourage not just myself, but everyone else to have more motivation to read the Bible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esnips.com\/displayimage.php?pid=33735377\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to my script. Though many were &quot;curious&quot; about my &quot;British&quot; accent, the key of a good reading\/narration, I believe, is pauses at the right places...or as some call it, phrasing: An element of narration I realized from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=324Q0_a-WRQ&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">movie of Harry Potter:A Narration by Emma Watson, from Harry Potter<\/a>, and then I paid attention to professionals like Patrick Stewart and John Hurt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHalf way through reading on the stage, my left hand began to shiver holding my script, so I rested my hand on the stand. I could still read at that distance but I couldn't afford to risk keeping any eye contact with the congregation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps a smile before and after reading next time would also help me relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Sundays ago, I had the opportunity of Bible reading in English. I practiced hard for it...despite their praises, I thank God and hope that His word is preached clearly. That it will encourage not just myself, but everyone else &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2318\">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":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}