{"id":9859,"date":"2011-03-17T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9859"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:42:28","slug":"chaplain-sponsors-duty-day-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/chaplain-sponsors-duty-day-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Sponsors &#8220;Duty Day with God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Capt.) Tony Cech came up with an innovative way to introduce himself to the men and women he serves.\u00a0 He has led trips to the local Mount Mauna Kea observatories, which are the highest peaks in the area at nearly 14,000 feet.\u00a0 These &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/66106\/duty-day-with-god-program-offers-relief-cab-soldiers\">Duty Day with God<\/a>&#8221; trips serve several purposes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army has developed innovative ways to help improve and maintain a soldier\u2019s mental health throughout the years. One way is to help strengthen the spiritual health of a soldier with the help of Army chaplains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Cech&#8217;s] \u2018Duty Day with God\u2019 helps reduce stress and serves another purpose for Cech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to be able to take soldiers on a trip to help them relax and for me to try and build a relationship with them,\u201d said Cech. \u201cI wanted the soldiers to see an approachable chaplain for anything that is bothering them. I also wanted them to see that the chaplain goes everywhere the soldiers are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/66106\/duty-day-with-god-program-offers-relief-cab-soldiers\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Capt.) Tony Cech came up with an innovative way to introduce himself to the men and women he serves.\u00a0 He has led trips to the local Mount Mauna Kea observatories, which are the highest peaks in the area at nearly 14,000 feet.\u00a0 These &#8220;Duty Day with God&#8221; trips serve several purposes: The Army has developed innovative ways to help [&#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":[88,5284,1540,2,1541,17,10,171,1267,1542],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-duty-day-with-god","tag-military","tag-mount-mauna-kea","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-spiritual-fitness","tag-tony-cech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859","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=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}