{"id":12682,"date":"2009-05-07T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_obama_defends_curtails_national_day_of_prayer\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T22:02:22","slug":"ap_obama_defends_curtails_national_day_of_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12682","title":{"rendered":"AP: Obama defends, curtails National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama is scaling back White House plans for Thursday&#8217;s National Day of Prayer even as his administration defends the tradition in federal court in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s position has disappointed Christian conservatives, who want the president to do more to mark the day, and an atheist group that wants him to end the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which claims the day violates the separation of church and state. In a rare alliance, 31 mostly Republican members of Congress and a prominent Christian legal group are joining the administration to fight the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-ap-wi-dayofprayer,0,7980566.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama is scaling back White House plans for Thursday&#8217;s National Day of Prayer even as his administration defends the tradition in federal court in Wisconsin. Obama&#8217;s position has disappointed Christian conservatives, who want the president to do more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12682\">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":[48,39,40,616,151,667,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","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\/12682","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=12682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}