{"id":129940,"date":"2024-06-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129940"},"modified":"2024-06-14T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:09:00","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-g-k-chesterton-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129940","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of G. K. Chesterton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O God of earth and altar, who didst give G. K. Chesterton a ready tongue and pen, and inspired him to use them in thy service: Mercifully grant that we may be inspired to witness cheerfully to the hope that is in us; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.\u201d<br><br>G.K. Chesterton, 29th May 1874 \u2013 14th June 1936 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhexhFGjKo\">pic.twitter.com\/yhexhFGjKo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DurhamWASP\/status\/1801406384291897560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of earth and altar, who didst give G. K. Chesterton a ready tongue and pen, and inspired him to use them in thy service: Mercifully grant that we may be inspired to witness cheerfully to the hope that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129940\">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":[174,186,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-church-history","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129940","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=129940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129945,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129940\/revisions\/129945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}