{"id":146127,"date":"2026-06-25T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146127"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:56:17","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-james-weldon-johnson-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146127","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of James Weldon Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eternal God, we give thanks for the gifts that thou didst bestow upon thy servant James Weldon Johnson: a heart and voice to praise thy Name in verse. As he gave us powerful words to glorify you, may we also speak with joy and boldness to banish hatred from thy creation, in the Name of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Born today in 1871: James Weldon Johnson, author of &quot;Lift Ev&#39;ry Voice and Sing.&quot; This portrait is by the Scurlock Studio of D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8SLoPCj81Q\">pic.twitter.com\/8SLoPCj81Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; National Museum of American History (@amhistorymuseum) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amhistorymuseum\/status\/876056921656225792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal God, we give thanks for the gifts that thou didst bestow upon thy servant James Weldon Johnson: a heart and voice to praise thy Name in verse. As he gave us powerful words to glorify you, may we also<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146127\">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":[209,186,183,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146127","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=146127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146129,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146127\/revisions\/146129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}