{"id":19085,"date":"2010-04-08T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-president_obama_bares_his_soul_for_easter_event\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:17:05","slug":"rns-president_obama_bares_his_soul_for_easter_event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19085","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;President Obama Bares His Soul for Easter Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama bared his soul before a cross section of Christian leaders at a White House Easter breakfast on Tuesday (April 6), where he spoke publicly of his faith in redemption through Jesus in his most personal terms since becoming president.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his &#8220;brothers and sisters in Christ&#8221; among the nearly 90 pastors, community activists, and bishops in attendance, Obama spoke of &#8220;our risen savior&#8221; and the inspiration he takes from Christ&#8217;s resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are awed by the grace he showed even to those who would have killed him,&#8221; Obama said, pausing occasionally to glance at written notes. &#8220;We are thankful for the sacrifice he gave for the sins of humanity. And we glory in the promise of redemption in the resurrection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/04\/obama-bares-his-soul-for-easte.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama bared his soul before a cross section of Christian leaders at a White House Easter breakfast on Tuesday (April 6), where he spoke publicly of his faith in redemption through Jesus in his most personal terms since becoming<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19085\">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":[48,39,40,187,571,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-easter","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085","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=19085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}