{"id":24329,"date":"2013-07-23T01:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24329"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:12:13","slug":"buddhist-chaplain-serves-wisconsin-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/buddhist-chaplain-serves-wisconsin-national-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Chaplain Serves Wisconsin National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Army National Guard state command chaplain, Chaplain (Col) Douglas Fleischfresser, recently welcomed 1LT Christopher Mohr to the Guard as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/110171\/wisconsin-guard-names-first-buddhist-chaplain\">Wisconsin&#8217;s first (and only) Buddhist chaplain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it speaks for where we&#8217;re going in diversity and the need to have a diverse viewpoint in spirituality,&#8221; said Fleischfresser&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>During his first two-weeks <!--more-->as a Buddhist chaplain in the Wisconsin Army National Guard, Mohr will hold nightly meditation training with a full-scale Buddhist service once a week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1Lt Mohr announced his candidacy three years ago, and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/buddhist-chaplain-candidate-sworn-in-on-sutra\/\">swore in using a Buddhist Sutra<\/a>.\u00a0 He is the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/army-to-get-second-buddhist-chaplain\/\">second Buddhist chaplain<\/a> in the US Army.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes approximately 30 Guard troops identify as Buddhist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin Army National Guard state command chaplain, Chaplain (Col) Douglas Fleischfresser, recently welcomed 1LT Christopher Mohr to the Guard as Wisconsin&#8217;s first (and only) Buddhist chaplain. &#8220;I think it speaks for where we&#8217;re going in diversity and the need to have a diverse viewpoint in spirituality,&#8221; said Fleischfresser&#8230; During his first two-weeks<\/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":[1357,37,5284,538,4170,2,10,171,1833],"class_list":["post-24329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army-national-guard","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-christopher-mohr","tag-douglas-fleischfresser","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329","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=24329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}