{"id":8421,"date":"2010-12-13T03:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2010-12-13T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T08:12:36","slug":"national-christmas-tree-menorah-grace-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/national-christmas-tree-menorah-grace-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"National Christmas Tree, Menorah Grace Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the decision by some government organizations to have &#8220;holiday&#8221; trees, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenationaltree.org\/\">National Christmas tree<\/a> lit in the Nation&#8217;s capital each year remains precisely that &#8212; a <em>Christmas <\/em>tree.\u00a0 This year the US Coast Guard Band was the primary musical backdrop for\u00a0the event; as is often tradition, the band stood for the Christmas prayer offered by the Rev. Darrell D. Morton.\u00a0 Some bowed their heads; some did not.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2010\/12\/09\/remarks-president-lighting-national-christmas-tree\">President&#8217;s remarks<\/a> included a call for prayer for the military:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We pray for the men and women in uniform serving in Afghanistan and Iraq and in faraway places who can\u2019t be home this holiday season.\u00a0 And we thank their families, who will mark this Christmas with an empty seat at the dinner table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The national display reportedly includes a Nativity scene.<\/p>\n<p>The National Menorah was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=25&amp;sid=2185523\">previously lit<\/a> on the White House ellipse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Also noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/white-house-hosts-kosher-hanukkah.html\">Religion Clause<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the decision by some government organizations to have &#8220;holiday&#8221; trees, the National Christmas tree lit in the Nation&#8217;s capital each year remains precisely that &#8212; a Christmas tree.\u00a0 This year the US Coast Guard Band was the primary musical backdrop for\u00a0the event; as is often tradition, the band stood for the Christmas prayer offered by the Rev. Darrell D. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,108,1234,1181,52,1193,2,1235,43,11],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-afghanistan","tag-christmas","tag-darrell-morton","tag-holiday","tag-iraq","tag-menorah","tag-military","tag-nativity","tag-obama","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","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=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}