{"id":5530,"date":"2010-05-24T00:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T08:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T06:13:59","slug":"army-to-get-second-buddhist-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/army-to-get-second-buddhist-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Army to Get Second Buddhist Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwest.edu\/site\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=597&amp;Itemid=69\">According to the University of the West<\/a>, a Buddhist-founded university near Los Angeles, US Army First Lieutenant Somya Malasri will soon be the Army&#8217;s second Buddhist Chaplain (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/baptist-to-buddhist-chaplain-to-deploy\/\">behind Chaplain (Lt) Thomas Dyer<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.navy.mil\/search\/display.asp?story_id=14387\">also has a Buddhist Chaplain<\/a>; Chaplain Shin is currently deployed to Afghanistan and has been <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/vesak-at-kandahar.html\">hosting Buddhist services there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shin also reported, courtesy of Chaplain Dyer, the Chaplain candidacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-2ndlt-christopher-mohr.html\">the next Buddhist Chaplain for the US Army<\/a>, 2LT Christopher Mohr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the University of the West, a Buddhist-founded university near Los Angeles, US Army First Lieutenant Somya Malasri will soon be the Army&#8217;s second Buddhist Chaplain (behind Chaplain (Lt) Thomas Dyer). The Navy also has a Buddhist Chaplain; Chaplain Shin is currently deployed to Afghanistan and has been hosting Buddhist services there. Shin also reported, courtesy of Chaplain Dyer, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,88,37,5284,538,537,2,36,10,536,371],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-christopher-mohr","tag-jeanette-shin","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-somya-malasri","tag-thomas-dyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}