{"id":16536,"date":"2012-02-27T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16536"},"modified":"2012-02-27T03:07:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:07:35","slug":"sailors-and-marines-observe-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/sailors-and-marines-observe-ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailors and Marines Observe Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy Sailors and Marines congregated on the USS <em>New Orleans <\/em>to take advantage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/84362\/service-members-observe-ash-wednesday-aboard-uss-new-orleans\">chaplains&#8217; support for Ash Wednesday<\/a>.\u00a0 Navy Chaplain (Lt) Paul Armstrong supported the practice of the sailors&#8217; and Marines&#8217; religious beliefs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFreedom of religion is one of our constitutional <!--more-->rights,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cWhat we do is \u2026 give [service members] an option to practice their faith.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US military recognizes there is value in giving its troops the ability to practice their faiths, even in locations that require special effort to do so.\u00a0 A young Marine helped explain why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt feels good because it keeps my faith up and keeps my day going even if I\u2019m going through hard times,\u201d said [Lance Cpl. Lance Bonney]. \u201cI try to participate as much as I can, whether it\u2019s bible study or a service.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy Sailors and Marines congregated on the USS New Orleans to take advantage of the chaplains&#8217; support for Ash Wednesday.\u00a0 Navy Chaplain (Lt) Paul Armstrong supported the practice of the sailors&#8217; and Marines&#8217; religious beliefs: \u201cFreedom of religion is one of our constitutional<\/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":[238,23,5284,96,82,2974,149,2,36,2970,2973,10,171],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-ash","tag-bible","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-lance-bonney","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-new-orleans","tag-paul-armstrong","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","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=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}