{"id":103387,"date":"2021-06-25T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103387"},"modified":"2021-06-25T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:39:06","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-james-weldon-johnson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103387","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of James Weldon Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal God, we give thanks for the gifts that thou didst bestow upon thy servant James Weldon Johnson: a heart and voice to praise thy Name in verse. As he gave us powerful words to glorify you, may we also speak with joy and boldness to banish hatred from thy creation, in the Name of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Grit, determination &amp; smarts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the 150th birthday of Jacksonville&#39;s most impressive, most accomplished native son or daughter &#8211; James Weldon Johnson. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KGCfD5tSTo\">pic.twitter.com\/KGCfD5tSTo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Hoff (@Bill_Hoff123) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bill_Hoff123\/status\/1405674304788893697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal God, we give thanks for the gifts that thou didst bestow upon thy servant James Weldon Johnson: a heart and voice to praise thy Name in verse. As he gave us powerful words to glorify you, may we also<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103387\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,183,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103443,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103387\/revisions\/103443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}