{"id":2977,"date":"2010-01-06T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2010-01-06T00:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:19:11","slug":"soldiers-faith-inspires-him-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/soldiers-faith-inspires-him-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier&#8217;s Faith Inspires Him to Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Army Lieutenant spearheaded an effort to provide an Iraqi child with the surgery she needed to give her sight.\u00a0 US Army 1st Lieutenant Jason Hickman&#8217;s efforts were in no small part a result of his faith, as he acknowledged that there are no such things as chance occurrences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the traditional sense of the word &#8216;destiny,&#8217; but I do believe that God puts people in certain places at certain times,&#8221; Hickman said. &#8220;Things don&#8217;t happen solely by coincidence. All you have to do is look for the road signs&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Lord may not push you around the board like a pawn, but every now and again he puts you where he wants you,&#8221; Hickman said. &#8220;We were supposed to end up in Zwaynat that night. It was just up to us what we were going to do when we got there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=42737\">the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army Lieutenant spearheaded an effort to provide an Iraqi child with the surgery she needed to give her sight.\u00a0 US Army 1st Lieutenant Jason Hickman&#8217;s efforts were in no small part a result of his faith, as he acknowledged that there are no such things as chance occurrences: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in the traditional sense of the word &#8216;destiny,&#8217; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[52,2,10],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","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=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}