{"id":11624,"date":"2011-06-27T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T07:41:21","slug":"switchfoot-plays-for-crew-of-uss-stennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/switchfoot-plays-for-crew-of-uss-stennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Switchfoot Plays for Crew of USS Stennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian rock band Switchfoot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=60967\">visited the USS John C. Stennis at sea<\/a> and played to 300 Sailors in the hangar bay:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grammy Award-winning alternative rock band Switchfoot visited USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and performed a concert for Sailors in the ship&#8217;s hangar bay June 9&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great privilege to have the opportunity to meet them,&#8221; <!--more-->said Aviation Structural Mechanic Airman Anna Vargas. &#8220;They took time out to come see us in the middle of the ocean not knowing if we were fans; they didn&#8217;t do it for the fame, they did it for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The concert was brought together by Navy Entertainment and Stennis&#8217; Morale, Welfare and Recreation department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Switchfoot joints <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/casting-crowns-shares-jesus-at-us-military-undisclosed-location\/\">Casting Crowns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/god-of-wonders-in-orbit-and-afghanistan\/\">Third Day<\/a>, and other Christian bands who, along with a wide variety of secular groups, have entertained and supported members of the US military around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian rock band Switchfoot visited the USS John C. Stennis at sea and played to 300 Sailors in the hangar bay: Grammy Award-winning alternative rock band Switchfoot visited USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and performed a concert for Sailors in the ship&#8217;s hangar bay June 9&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s a great privilege to have the opportunity to meet them,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1864,1221,96,2,36,1861,1862,1863],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-anna-vargas","tag-casting-crowns","tag-christian","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-switchfoot","tag-third-day","tag-uss-john-stennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}