{"id":35,"date":"2007-04-20T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:39:09","slug":"president-bush-announces-national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/president-bush-announces-national-day-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bush Announces National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">President Bush announces the annual National Day of Prayer <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/04\/20070420-4.html\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">.\u00a0 The day will be celebrated on May 3rd this year.\u00a0 An interesting history of the tradition is contained in former President George H. W. Bush&#8217;s 1989 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/index.php?pid=8036\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">proclamation<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Since the approval of the joint resolution of the Congress on April 17, 1952, calling for the designation of a specific day to be set aside each year as a National Day of Prayer, recognition of such a day has become a cherished annual event. Each President since then has proclaimed a National Day of Prayer annually under the authority of that resolution, continuing a tradition that actually dates back to the Continental Congress, which issued the first official proclamation for a National Day of Prayer on July 12, 1775. By Public Law 100-307, the first Thursday in May of each year has been set aside as a National Day of Prayer.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush announces the annual National Day of Prayer here.\u00a0 The day will be celebrated on May 3rd this year.\u00a0 An interesting history of the tradition is contained in former President George H. W. Bush&#8217;s 1989 proclamation: Since the approval of the joint resolution of the Congress on April 17, 1952, calling for the designation of a specific day to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[61,4,2,11,10],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bush","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}