{"id":8740,"date":"2020-07-04T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2020-07-04T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:09:22","slug":"god-bless-america-on-this-july-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/god-bless-america-on-this-july-4-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless America on this July 4, 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flag-liberty-500x296-1.jpg\" alt=\"God bless America!\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although our country is undergoing severe trials at the moment one important thing to remember is this: All the refugee movements in the past century have aimed for America. America is and has been a magnanimous and generous country, not without some faults but certainly a beacon and place of freedom for millions &#8212; including ourselves or our forbears. <\/p>\n<p>The good in America is worth preserving, the weak is worth strengthening, that which should be changed is worth changing.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for our country, our president, and all those in civil authority that the right decisions be made, and that our nation comes to God in order to preserve our liberty.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although our country is undergoing severe trials at the moment one important thing to remember is this: All the refugee movements in the past century have aimed for America. America is and has been a magnanimous and generous country, not without some faults but certainly a beacon and place of freedom for millions &#8212; including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}