{"id":6534,"date":"2010-07-26T00:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2010-07-31T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:02:12","slug":"obama-curses-er-christens-coast-guard-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/obama-curses-er-christens-coast-guard-cutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Curses…er, Christens…Coast Guard Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Lady Michelle Obama christened the US Coast Guard Cutter Stratton<\/em> last Friday.\u00a0 There was a slight groan from the crowd<\/a> when the first swing failed to break the bottle<\/a>; the second was successful.\u00a0 Maritime tradition considers the failure of the bottle to break on christening “bad luck<\/a>.”\u00a0 In one recent example, the Queen Victoria<\/em> was reported to be a victim of the “Camilla curse<\/a>” when a virus broke out on the cruise ship’s maiden voyage after the Duchess of Cornwall failed to break the bottle on the ship’s christening.<\/p>\n

Maritime superstition notwithstanding, of course, it is laudable the First Lady would take the time to support the Coast Guard and the longstanding tradition of christening sea-going vessels.<\/p>\n

Perhaps someday such celebrations will be overcome by events.\u00a0 After all, ship christening has a long and historied spiritual connection, and even the term christening<\/em> is ripe with religious connotation.\u00a0 (See the US Navy’s official history on ship christening<\/a>.)\u00a0 Those who want to strip any vestige of religious association from the US military will undoubtedly claim the blessing or christening of military equipment violates the Constitution and endangers American servicemembers fighting in our nation’s wars.\u00a0 Such a critique would be ridiculous, of course, but that hasn’t stopped similar ones made to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Lady Michelle Obama christened the US Coast Guard Cutter Stratton last Friday.\u00a0 There was a slight groan from the crowd when the first swing failed to break the bottle; the second was successful.\u00a0 Maritime tradition considers the failure of the bottle to break on christening “bad luck.”\u00a0 In one recent example, the Queen Victoria was reported to be a […]<\/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":[816,582,4,820,818,819,2,36,43,817,10,40],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-bottle-break","tag-christening","tag-churchandstate","tag-coast-guard","tag-cornwall","tag-dorothy-stratton","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-obama","tag-queen-victoria","tag-religion","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}