{"id":17214,"date":"2012-04-13T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17214"},"modified":"2012-04-13T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T03:09:15","slug":"buddhism-at-fort-benning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/buddhism-at-fort-benning\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism and Meditation at Fort Benning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Capt) Thomas Dyer was once a Marine.\u00a0 He was also <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/baptist-to-buddhist-chaplain-to-deploy\/\">once a Southern Baptist preacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dyer has served for several years, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/buddhist-chaplain-leads-holy-day-in-iraq\/\">deployment to Iraq<\/a>.\u00a0 While he&#8217;s the first Army Buddhist chaplain, several Buddhists have recently become chaplain candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The TV station local to Fort Benning recently did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhalasun.com\/sunspace\/?p=25336\">short segment on the Chaplain<\/a>, and the military&#8217;s support to religious freedom his service demonstrates:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"429\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=70ea634ec431102faba2001ec92a4a0d&#038;z=RBL&#038;embed_player=1\" ><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=70ea634ec431102faba2001ec92a4a0d&#038;z=RBL&#038;embed_player=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"429\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Chaplain (Capt) Thomas Dyer was once a Marine.\u00a0 He was also once a Southern Baptist preacher. Dyer has served for several years, including a deployment to Iraq.\u00a0 While he&#8217;s the first Army Buddhist chaplain, several Buddhists have recently become chaplain candidates. The TV station local to Fort Benning recently did a short segment on the Chaplain, and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88,37,5284,96,52,149,2,10,171,371],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-iraq","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-thomas-dyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214","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=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}