{"id":644,"date":"2006-05-04T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=644"},"modified":"2011-04-17T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:08:18","slug":"test-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/test-286\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Calls U.S. a &#8220;Nation of Prayer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of the weird, my friends. Our &#8220;politics-and-religion-mixing President has declared, on this the national day of prayer, that the U.S. is a nation of prayer&#8221;:http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060504\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/bush_prayer;_ylt=Auh2YG3m0lrz_xYEcS4QLD6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-. I wonder if, on the national day of reason, he&#8217;ll declare the U.S. a nation of reason? Oh, right, we don&#8217;t have that national day. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back to that recent study on prayer [TAOMPH245], it is now clear to me why the U.S. is split down the middle politically. If you have a 50% chance of suffering complications after heart bypass surgery whether people pray for you or not, I guess a nation of prayer has a 50% chance of being Republican or Democrat. Double yikes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>.. [TAOMPH245] <a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=653\">http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=653<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of the weird, my friends. Our &#8220;politics-and-religion-mixing President has declared, on this the national day of prayer, that the U.S. is a nation of prayer&#8221;:http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060504\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/bush_prayer;_ylt=Auh2YG3m0lrz_xYEcS4QLD6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-. I wonder if, on the national day of reason, he&#8217;ll declare the U.S. a nation of reason? Oh, right, we don&#8217;t have that national day. Yikes. Thinking back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[59,50,78,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random","7":"tag-policy","8":"tag-politics-2","9":"tag-religion","10":"tag-statistics","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}