{"id":135931,"date":"2025-03-26T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135931"},"modified":"2025-03-26T06:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:20:47","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-richard-allen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135931","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Richard Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loving God, who hast made us all thy children by adoption in Jesus Christ: May we, following the example of thy servant Richard Allen, proclaim liberty to all who are enslaved and captive in this world; through Jesus Christ, Savior of all, who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its first bishop, died on March 26, 1831, at his home aged 61. According to some accounts, Allen was sitting in a rocking chair at his front window when he passed away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jQKJdwx7OA\">https:\/\/t.co\/jQKJdwx7OA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXPVSKHxoa\">pic.twitter.com\/GXPVSKHxoa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Trivia Encyclopedia (@edpearce080759) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edpearce080759\/status\/1904818573681344845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving God, who hast made us all thy children by adoption in Jesus Christ: May we, following the example of thy servant Richard Allen, proclaim liberty to all who are enslaved and captive in this world; through Jesus Christ, Savior<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135931\">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":[186,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135931","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=135931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135934,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135931\/revisions\/135934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}