{"id":7409,"date":"2010-09-28T00:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2010-09-27T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T07:09:43","slug":"army-national-guard-gets-first-muslim-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/army-national-guard-gets-first-muslim-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Army National Guard Gets First Muslim Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a DoD press release, Army 1LT Rafael Lantigua of the Texas National Guard will soon be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=61001\">Army National Guard&#8217;s first Muslim Chaplain<\/a>.\u00a0 Lantigua has fulfilled all requirements save some classes required by the Chaplain board.\u00a0 Lantigua, who had a Roman Catholic father and a mother who converted from Baptist to Buddhist, converted to Islam as a teenager.\u00a0 He says he looks forward to being a model for &#8220;other members of [his] faith:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am humbled for this opportunity to be a role model for other members of my faith throughout the military,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While he is by no means the first Islamic Chaplain in the US military, they remain relatively few in number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a DoD press release, Army 1LT Rafael Lantigua of the Texas National Guard will soon be the Army National Guard&#8217;s first Muslim Chaplain.\u00a0 Lantigua has fulfilled all requirements save some classes required by the Chaplain board.\u00a0 Lantigua, who had a Roman Catholic father and a mother who converted from Baptist to Buddhist, converted to Islam as a teenager.\u00a0 [&#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":[88,37,5284,44,2,1028,10],"class_list":["post-7409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-rafael-lantigua","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409","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=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}