{"id":10784,"date":"2009-01-19T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/some_faiths_left_out_of_prayer_service\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T09:41:08","slug":"some_faiths_left_out_of_prayer_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10784","title":{"rendered":"Some faiths left out of prayer service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Episcopalians and three Jews lead the list of religious figures selected to give sermons, prayers, Scripture readings and blessings at the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation-only service Wednesday morning, to be attended by the new president and vice president plus members of Congress, the Supreme Court and hundreds of foreign diplomats, will be built around themes of &#8220;tolerance, unity and understanding,&#8221; according to a press statement released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Several groups, including Buddhists, Seventh-day Adventists, the Salvation Army and Mormons, were left out entirely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/17\/many-religions-to-be-represented\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Episcopalians and three Jews lead the list of religious figures selected to give sermons, prayers, Scripture readings and blessings at the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral. The invitation-only service Wednesday morning, to be attended by the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10784\">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":[48,39,40,183,616,151,667,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","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=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}