{"id":96979,"date":"2020-11-20T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96979"},"modified":"2020-11-20T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:28:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-edmund-of-east-anglia-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96979","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Edmund of East Anglia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God of ineffable mercy, who didst give grace and fortitude to blessed Edmund the king to triumph over the enemy of his people by nobly dying for thy Name: Bestow on us thy servants, we beseech thee, the shield of faith, wherewith we may withstand the assaults of our ancient enemy; through Jesus Christ our Redeemer, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the feast day of St Edmund, king of East Anglia, who was decapitated by Vikings in 869. The Vikings hid his head in a wood but God sent a wolf to guard it. When Edmund&#39;s followers came to find him, his head called out to them (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMedieval?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BLMedieval<\/a> Yates Thompson MS 47, f. 54r). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XbTffiwy7F\">pic.twitter.com\/XbTffiwy7F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Calum Cockburn (@CCockburn2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCockburn2\/status\/1329737076020015104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God of ineffable mercy, who didst give grace and fortitude to blessed Edmund the king to triumph over the enemy of his people by nobly dying for thy Name: Bestow on us thy servants, we beseech thee, the shield<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96979\">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-96979","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\/96979","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=96979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96981,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96979\/revisions\/96981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}