{"id":948,"date":"2009-09-17T00:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T04:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:20:17","slug":"man-of-the-cloth-and-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/man-of-the-cloth-and-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Man of the Cloth and Uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/28\/AR2009082803626.html?hpid=sec-religion\">Washington Post article<\/a> describes Chaplain (Lt.) Ray F. Rivers, a 45 year old Marine Lieutenant and Chaplain from South Carolina.\u00a0 The Chaplain is growing a beard to facilitate his meetings with local Islamic and political\u00a0leaders, leading one Marine to say he &#8220;looks like Sting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As he demonstrates, Chaplains serve servicemembers, but they also serve <em>the mission<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short Washington Post article describes Chaplain (Lt.) Ray F. Rivers, a 45 year old Marine Lieutenant and Chaplain from South Carolina.\u00a0 The Chaplain is growing a beard to facilitate his meetings with local Islamic and political\u00a0leaders, leading one Marine to say he &#8220;looks like Sting.&#8221; As he demonstrates, Chaplains serve servicemembers, but they also serve the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,23,4,44,2,11,10],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-bible","tag-churchandstate","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}