{"id":1323,"date":"2007-08-11T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_colatch_football_chaplain\/"},"modified":"2007-08-11T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T21:02:00","slug":"john_colatch_football_chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"John Colatch: Football chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I\u2019ve resisted mixing religion and sports. Whether it\u2019s football teams reciting the Lord\u2019s Prayer after a game or chaplains in clerical collars sitting on the bench during basketball games, I watch with a skeptical eye. Do folks really think God has the time or interest to devote to a sports competition? At the small college where I once served as chaplain, I refused to follow tradition and offer a prayer over the public address system before every home football game. Instead, I offer a challenge to the teams and fans to exemplify good sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>So those who know me cannot help but smile whenever they hear me referred to as the \u201cfootball chaplain.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolog.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/football-chapla.html#more\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I\u2019ve resisted mixing religion and sports. Whether it\u2019s football teams reciting the Lord\u2019s Prayer after a game or chaplains in clerical collars sitting on the bench during basketball games, I watch with a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1323\">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":[39,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}