{"id":1201,"date":"2011-05-05T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2012-02-11T23:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T04:34:55","slug":"national_day_of_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/2011\/05\/national_day_of_prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--rpuStart--><!--rpuStart--><!--rpuStart--><!--rpuStart--><\/p>\n<h3>Today we were asked to set aside a few minutes to spend in prayer for our nation.\u00a0 I thought it appropriate to share the history of this day.<\/h3>\n<h2>History of the National Day of Prayer<\/h2>\n<h2>taken from the official site<\/h2>\n<h3>\u201cFasting and prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an  act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for  itself the time for these exercises, and the objects proper for them,  according to their own particular tenets; and right can never be safer  than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited it.\u201d Thomas  Jefferson, 1808<\/h3>\n<h3>Because of the faith of many of our  founding fathers, public prayer and national days of prayer have a  long-standing and significant history in American tradition. The Supreme  Court affirmed the right of state legislatures to open their sessions  with prayer in Marsh vs. Chambers (1983).<\/h3>\n<h3>The National Day of Prayer is a vital part of our heritage. Since the  first call to prayer in 1775, when the Continental Congress asked the  colonies to pray for wisdom in forming a nation, the call to prayer has  continued through our history, including President Lincoln\u2019s  proclamation of a day of \u201chumiliation, fasting, and prayer\u201d in 1863. In  1952, a joint resolution by Congress, signed by President Truman,  declared an annual, national day of prayer. In 1988, the law was amended  and signed by President Reagan, permanently setting the day as the  first Thursday of every May. Each year, the president signs a  proclamation, encouraging all Americans to pray on this day. Last year,  all 50 state governors plus the governors of several U.S. territories  signed similar proclamations.<\/h3>\n<h3>To read the entire article visit the official site at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"nationaldayofprayer.org\" href=\"http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/about\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/about\/history\/<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--rpuEnd--><!--rpuEnd--><!--rpuEnd--><!--rpuEnd--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we were asked to set aside a few minutes to spend in prayer for our nation.\u00a0 I thought it appropriate to share the history of this day. History of the National Day of Prayer taken from the official site \u201cFasting and prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,10],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shining-examples","category-tlr","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemonthofwisdom.com\/wisdomblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}