{"id":19261,"date":"2012-08-31T00:45:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19261"},"modified":"2012-08-27T02:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:44:01","slug":"cannon-afb-chapel-helps-achieve-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/cannon-afb-chapel-helps-achieve-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannon AFB Chapel Helps Achieve Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, US Army Chaplain (Capt) Somya Malasri was recently hosted a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cannon.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123309668\">Buddhist meditation and yoga workshop<\/a>,&#8221; sponsored by the Cannon Air Force Base chapel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/cannonbud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Generally, chapel services aren&#8217;t newsworthy events, and except for a few photos, this event was similar.\u00a0 What makes this significant (though not unique), of course, is <!--more-->the demonstration of the extent to which the US military goes to provide for the spiritual needs of its servicemembers &#8212; even those of minority faiths.<\/p>\n<p>While its certainly not perfect (as no institution is), the US military generally does an admirable job of supporting the religious freedom of its troops.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Airman 1st Class Ericka Engblom<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/cannon-achieves-serene-state.html\">Buddhist Military Sangha<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, US Army Chaplain (Capt) Somya Malasri was recently hosted a &#8220;Buddhist meditation and yoga workshop,&#8221; sponsored by the Cannon Air Force Base chapel. Generally, chapel services aren&#8217;t newsworthy events, and except for a few photos, this event was similar.\u00a0 What makes this significant (though not unique), of course, is<\/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":[37,3532,38,5284,2,10,171,536],"class_list":["post-19261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-buddhism","tag-cannon-afb","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-somya-malasri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261","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=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}