{"id":20280,"date":"2010-06-11T02:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thousands_of_south_louisianians_praying_in_face_of_massive_gulf_oil_spill\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T02:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T02:05:05","slug":"thousands_of_south_louisianians_praying_in_face_of_massive_gulf_oil_spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20280","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of South Louisianians praying in face of massive Gulf oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a day, precisely at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., alarms ring on dozens of cell phones, alerting those participating in the Rev. Jim Woodard&#8217;s week-old Internet prayer initiative to spend one minute praying for relief from the BP Gulf oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>In Meraux, Cesar Lopez rises each morning at 4:30 a.m. and says the rosary, as he does every day, remembering especially to pray for relief for families stricken economically by the spill.<\/p>\n<p>And in Violet, a coalition of Christian pastors has begun laying plans to pray with out-of-work fishers at least three mornings a week in Shell Beach, Delacroix and Hopedale as the men gather before dawn to learn whether BP will put them to work that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever BP decides to do, that&#8217;s down the road,&#8221; said Brandy Shelton, who lingered after the Sunday service at Christian Fellowship in Violet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/gulf-oil-spill\/index.ssf\/2010\/06\/thousands_of_south_louisianian.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a day, precisely at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., alarms ring on dozens of cell phones, alerting those participating in the Rev. Jim Woodard&#8217;s week-old Internet prayer initiative to spend one minute praying for relief from the BP Gulf<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20280\">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":[48,39,40,410,140,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2010-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill","category-energy-natural-resources","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20280","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=20280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}