{"id":398,"date":"2009-08-13T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/commander-relies-on-daily-prayer\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T15:50:23","slug":"commander-relies-on-daily-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/commander-relies-on-daily-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander Relies on Daily Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama recently noted the importance of prayer in his life, saying that he &#8220;prays all the time now.&#8221;\u00a0 He made the statement in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20090726\/obama-i-pray-all-the-time-now\/index.html\">interview for <em>Nightline<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama says he starts his day with a devotional that the director of his Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships initiative, Pentecostal pastor Joshua DuBois, sends to his BlackBerry each day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Commander in Chief also said &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a lot of stuff on my plate and I need guidance all the time.&#8221;\u00a0 Like his military subordinates, Obama enjoys the liberties of free exercise guaranteed by the Constitution, as well as the freedom to let his exercise be known.<\/p>\n<p>To date, there have been no significant complaints that Obama&#8217;s statements about religion or prayer have unduly influenced or discriminated against his subordinates.\u00a0 (By contrast, some military officers were the subjects of complaints a few years ago for merely <em>mentioning<\/em> the biographical fact that they were Christians.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama recently noted the importance of prayer in his life, saying that he &#8220;prays all the time now.&#8221;\u00a0 He made the statement in an interview for Nightline. President Obama says he starts his day with a devotional that the director of his Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships initiative, Pentecostal pastor Joshua DuBois, sends to his BlackBerry each day. The Commander [&#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":[4,2,43,45,11,10],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}