{"id":28899,"date":"2014-05-08T00:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28899"},"modified":"2016-11-25T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:59:09","slug":"us-navy-conducts-blessing-of-the-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/us-navy-conducts-blessing-of-the-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Conducts Blessing of the Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy conducted its annual &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=80367\">Blessing of the Fleet<\/a>&#8221; last month, hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/navymemorial.org\/events\/calendar\/blessing-fleets\">US Navy Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The blessing of the fleet is a ceremony created centuries ago in Europe and is a common practice by Sailors and navies around the world intended to guard ships and crews from the hazards of the sea.<!--more--> Sailors from the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and Coast Guard Honor Guard poured water from the Seven Seas and the Great Lakes into the surrounding fountains, &#8220;charging&#8221; them to life and ushering in the spring season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, while the US Navy has participated for the past 23 years, at least, an elementary school mock up of the same thing was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/blessing-of-the-fleet-canceled-over-first-amendment\/\">canceled last year<\/a> over the &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; last year.<\/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>The US Navy conducted its annual &#8220;Blessing of the Fleet&#8221; last month, hosted by the US Navy Memorial. The blessing of the fleet is a ceremony created centuries ago in Europe and is a common practice by Sailors and navies around the world intended to guard ships and crews from the hazards of the sea.<\/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":[3972,2,36,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-28899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-blessing-of-the-fleet","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28899","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=28899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}