{"id":17072,"date":"2012-04-10T00:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2012-04-09T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:27:08","slug":"senator-kerry-call-of-jesus-is-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/senator-kerry-call-of-jesus-is-to-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kerry: Call of Jesus is to Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) recently gave an interesting speech on his Catholic faith and his political career:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t usually talk about faith. It&#8217;s not something every audience wants to digest or is able to digest, but I believe the call of Jesus and every religious leader is the call to service,&#8221; Kerry told a few hundred students, faculty and other onlookers as he delivered the inaugural Richard F. Gross Distinguished Lecture inside the chapel at the Christian college. &#8220;I like to think that my entire career is an extension of my faith.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/local\/x1862283691\/Sen-Kerry-talks-about-link-between-career-faith\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Kerry (D-Ma) recently gave an interesting speech on his Catholic faith and his political career: &#8220;I don&#8217;t usually talk about faith. It&#8217;s not something every audience wants to digest or is able to digest, but I believe the call of Jesus and every religious leader is the call to service,&#8221; Kerry told a few hundred students, faculty and [&#8230;]<\/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":[54,96,2175,3104,3105],"class_list":["post-17072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-catholic","tag-christian","tag-jesus","tag-john-kerry","tag-richard-f-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072","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=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}