{"id":986,"date":"2006-05-04T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=986"},"modified":"2006-05-04T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:16:00","slug":"national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/national-day-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/NDP_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/400\/NDP_02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo today is the National Day of Prayer.<br \/>\nThey held an event at the courthouse in Waxahachie today and several local pastors and a few county employees gave prayers for various groups of people.<br \/>\nThe media is normally one of the specific groups that are recommended to be prayed for, but we only got a line or so today.<br \/>\nIt was interesting, &#8220;We pray for the media. They are the spokesperson&#8217;s of our day. I pray that they communicate the truth and not criticism and debate.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow don&#8217;t get me wrong, as a member of the media I appreciate any prayers we can get. But I&#8217;ve always thought the role of the media is to be critical. That doesn&#8217;t mean hateful. That doesn&#8217;t mean slanderous. But I feel we should be critical. What do you think? Should the media just stand by and only report what we&#8217;re told? Or should we be leary of everything and examine everything and look for every side of every story to reveal the truth?<br \/>\nShouldn&#8217;t a healthy media spur and encourage debate?<br \/>\nIf there was no debate, that would mean the media is simply feeding one side of a story and everyone is accepting it.<br \/>\nOr is that just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today is the National Day of Prayer. They held an event at the courthouse in Waxahachie today and several local pastors and a few county employees gave prayers for various groups of people. The media is normally one of the specific groups that are recommended to be prayed for, but we only got a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/national-day-of-prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Day of Prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-fU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}