{"id":18862,"date":"2012-07-31T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2012-07-30T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:29:14","slug":"army-celebrates-237th-anniversary-of-chaplaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/army-celebrates-237th-anniversary-of-chaplaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Celebrates 237th Anniversary of Chaplaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army has been celebrating the 237th Anniversary of the Army Chaplaincy, as defined by July 29, 1775, when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/standto\/archive\/2010\/07\/29\/\">Continental Congress authorized<\/a>\u00a0(or authorized pay for, to be more accurate) chaplains in\u00a0the Continental\u00a0Army, whose Commander in Chief was General George Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations have taken many forms, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/84308\/237th_anniversary_of_the_U_S__Army_Chaplain_Corps__Jump\/\">mass parachute jump of chaplains<\/a> and senior leaders at Fort Bragg to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/breaking\/2012\/07\/army_chaplains_237th_birthday.html\">cake-cutting at Redstone Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/chapcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some military atheist will probably stamp his feet in &#8220;me, too&#8221; fashion and threaten to sue over the fact his religion wasn&#8217;t included on the cake.\u00a0 Icing demands &#8220;equality&#8221; and is a &#8220;limited public forum,&#8221; you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Army has been celebrating the 237th Anniversary of the Army Chaplaincy, as defined by July 29, 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized\u00a0(or authorized pay for, to be more accurate) chaplains in\u00a0the Continental\u00a0Army, whose Commander in Chief was General George Washington. The celebrations have taken many forms, including a mass parachute jump of chaplains and senior leaders at Fort [&#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":[3461,88,20,5284,3462,623],"class_list":["post-18862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-anniversary","tag-army","tag-atheism","tag-chaplain","tag-continental-army","tag-george-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862","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=18862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}