{"id":8173,"date":"2003-03-19T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/19\/shut-up-and-pray\/"},"modified":"2003-03-19T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2003-03-20T02:27:13","slug":"shut-up-and-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/shut-up-and-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut up and pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">With the deadline having just passed within minutes of my writing<br \/>\nthis post, I think that whether we believe in the justness\/unjustnest of the<br \/>\nwar in Iraq we can all share the same action, prayer. I believe that disarmament<br \/>\nin this case is just, but I am glad that I am not the one responsible for having<br \/>\nto make that call. After spending 20 years in the Navy and also generally being<br \/>\na firm supporter of the President I have to watch my biases as to their influences<br \/>\non my opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I believe that the eventual removal of Saddam Hussien and his<br \/>\ncronies and the implementation of  democracy in Iraq will lead to<br \/>\npeace in the region. I also pray that their is proportionality in our actions<br \/>\nand that the result of this will truly improve peoples lives there. Not being<br \/>\nany kind of expert on the people and culture of Iraq I can&#8217;t say what the likelyhood<br \/>\nof this really is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">What I do know is that I can contibute to this effort through<br \/>\nprayer. This being Lent the atmosphere is already there, yet I am going to<br \/>\ntry to spend more time in prayer for the intercession of peace and justice<br \/>\nin Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the deadline having just passed within minutes of my writing this post, I think that whether we believe in the justness\/unjustnest of the war in Iraq we can all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","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=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}