{"id":60837,"date":"2017-06-13T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60837"},"modified":"2017-06-12T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T22:57:35","slug":"g-k-chestertons-prayer-for-political-life-to-begin-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60837","title":{"rendered":"G. K. Chesterton\u2019s prayer for political life to begin the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duncanvinson.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/19\/g-k-chestertons-prayer-for-political-life\/\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O God of earth and altar,<br \/>\n    bow down and hear our cry;<br \/>\n    our earthly rulers falter,<br \/>\n    our people drift and die;<br \/>\n    the walls of gold entomb us,<br \/>\n    the swords of scorn divide;<br \/>\n    take not your thunder from us,<br \/>\n    but take away our pride.<\/p>\n<p>    From all that terror teaches,<br \/>\n    from lies of tongue and pen,<br \/>\n    from all the easy speeches<br \/>\n    that comfort cruel men,<br \/>\n    from sale and profanation<br \/>\n    of honor and the sword,<br \/>\n    from sleep and from damnation,<br \/>\n    deliver us, good Lord!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry; our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die; the walls of gold entomb us, the swords of scorn divide; take not your thunder from us,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60837\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60837","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=60837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60838,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60837\/revisions\/60838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}