{"id":7666,"date":"2010-10-19T00:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T06:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2010-10-17T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:24:38","slug":"chaplain-blesses-local-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/chaplain-blesses-local-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Blesses Local Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Lt. Col.) James Brisson of Fort Bragg recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/10\/08\/46356-chaplain-leads-first-ever-animal-blessing-on-fort-bragg\/\">held a &#8220;Blessing of the Pets&#8221; for his congregation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Catholic religion, the blessing of animals tradition began with St. Francis&#8217; love for animals and the environment making him a friend and protector to them. Even though world wide this widely-practiced ceremony continues to grow with owners bringing cows, horses, and various other pets, to blessings, Fort Bragg honored dogs and birds with it&#8217;s first-ever intimate ceremony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US military Chaplains supporting the troops&#8230;and, their pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Lt. Col.) James Brisson of Fort Bragg recently held a &#8220;Blessing of the Pets&#8221; for his congregation. According to the Catholic religion, the blessing of animals tradition began with St. Francis&#8217; love for animals and the environment making him a friend and protector to them. Even though world wide this widely-practiced ceremony continues to grow with owners bringing cows, [&#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":[5284,1023,1084,2,1083],"class_list":["post-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-fort-bragg","tag-james-brisson","tag-military","tag-saint-francis-of-assisi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","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=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}