{"id":24657,"date":"2009-05-25T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/how-obama-became-christian\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:48:04","slug":"how-obama-became-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/how-obama-became-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obama became Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; \">Lorenzo Albacete writes today about President Obama&#8217;s becoming Christian. Apparently the President said:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; \">&#8220;Perhaps because the church folk I worked with were so welcoming and understanding, perhaps because they invited me to their services and sang with me from their hymnals, perhaps because I was really broke and they fed me. Perhaps because I witnessed all of the good work their faith inspired them to perform, I found myself drawn not just to work with the Church. I was drawn to be in the Church. It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read Msgr. Albacete&#8217;s analysis&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsussidiario.net\/articolo.aspx?articolo=21324\">the story<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Albacete writes today about President Obama&#8217;s becoming Christian. Apparently the President said: &#8220;Perhaps because the church folk I worked with were so welcoming and understanding, perhaps because they invited me to their services and sang with me from their hymnals, perhaps because I was really broke and they fed me. Perhaps because I witnessed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/how-obama-became-christian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Obama became Christian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[1999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}