{"id":7211,"date":"2010-09-16T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2010-09-12T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T23:27:15","slug":"buddhist-graduate-to-become-second-us-army-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/buddhist-graduate-to-become-second-us-army-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Graduate to Become Second US Army Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwest.edu\/site\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=17&amp;Itemid=35\">press release<\/a> by University of the West (a Buddhist school in Southern California), Somya Malasri has had his coursework in Buddhism approved by the Army, a crucial step which will allow him to enter the military as a Chaplain (see <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/army-to-get-second-buddhist-chaplain\/\">prior story<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>To date, Malasri is the only graduate of the school&#8217;s M.Div. program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/uwest-alum-now-active-duty-buddhist.html\">Buddhist Military Sangha<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release by University of the West (a Buddhist school in Southern California), Somya Malasri has had his coursework in Buddhism approved by the Army, a crucial step which will allow him to enter the military as a Chaplain (see prior story). To date, Malasri is the only graduate of the school&#8217;s M.Div. program. Via Buddhist Military [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37,5284,2,10,536],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-somya-malasri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","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=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}