{"id":14618,"date":"2011-12-12T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T03:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14618"},"modified":"2011-12-12T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T03:29:38","slug":"obama-remembers-us-military-in-hanukkah-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/12\/obama-remembers-us-military-in-hanukkah-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Remembers US Military in Hanukkah Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week President Barack Obama hosted the annual White House Hanukkah reception with Vice President Biden.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usma.edu\/uscc\/dca\/clubs\/club%20setup%20info\/jcch.html\">West Point Jewish Chapel Cadet Choir<\/a> performed at the event.\u00a0 Obama specifically mentioned the military in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/12\/08\/remarks-president-hanukkah-reception\">statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s think about those who are spending this holiday far away from home -\u2013 including members of our military who guard <!--more-->our freedom around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, the President rounded the date a bit roughly, and cited the &#8220;timeless story&#8221; of Hanukkah over &#8220;2,000 years.&#8221;\u00a0 Hanukkah actually commemorates events from the 2nd Century BC; &#8220;2,000 years&#8221; is more often used to reference the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Also noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/white-house-hosts-hanukkah-reception.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week President Barack Obama hosted the annual White House Hanukkah reception with Vice President Biden.\u00a0 The West Point Jewish Chapel Cadet Choir performed at the event.\u00a0 Obama specifically mentioned the military in his statement: Let\u2019s think about those who are spending this holiday far away from home -\u2013 including members of our military who guard<\/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":[66,1194,39,2,43,10,231,101],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-biden","tag-hanukkah","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-religion","tag-usma","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","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=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}