{"id":7258,"date":"2004-04-08T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/08\/bible-verse-on-fire-truck-causes-flap\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T02:58:08","slug":"bible-verse-on-fire-truck-causes-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/bible-verse-on-fire-truck-causes-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible verse on fire truck causes flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">MARION, Ind. &#8212; Some have questioned whether a religious verse painted on the city&#8217;s new fire truck is proper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Fire Chief Steve Gorrell said department members considering slogans to go on the new truck settled on part of the 23rd Psalm: &#8220;Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The firefighters wanted to put something on there to show the public how they represent themselves,&#8221; Gorrell told the Chronicle-Tribune for a story today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The department chose the biblical passage over secular sayings such as, &#8220;While others are rushing out, we&#8217;re rushing in,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">City Councilwoman Ann Secttor said the passage did not belong on a public vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any part of religion should be mixed with politics,&#8221; said Secttor, who is Jewish.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/articles\/9\/136175-4069-103.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARION, Ind. &#8212; Some have questioned whether a religious verse painted on the city&#8217;s new fire truck is proper. Fire Chief Steve Gorrell said department members considering slogans to go&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}