{"id":2655,"date":"2004-03-21T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2004-03-21T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T01:08:00","slug":"matthew-544","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"MATTHEW 5:44*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/EDUCATION\/03\/19\/school.prayer.ap\/index.html\">This one<\/a> is just plain silly.  A Lousiana g-school principal led her students in a prayer at the start of the state accountability tests.  She prayed for help in vanquishing their &#8220;enemies,&#8221; the tests.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I receive your help faith, knowing that through you I shall do valiantly, for you are the one who treads down my enemies.(LEAP, Iowa)&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the ACLU is involved, and she&#8217;s under investigation by the school district.  A different prayer, handed out earlier to teachers by the same principal read, in part, &#8220;Education in New Orleans, is in trouble.&#8221;  No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>*Matthew 5:44- But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, (NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is just plain silly. A Lousiana g-school principal led her students in a prayer at the start of the state accountability tests. She prayed for help in vanquishing their &#8220;enemies,&#8221; the tests. &#8220;I receive your help faith, knowing that through you I shall do valiantly, for you are the one who treads down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}