{"id":26230,"date":"2011-02-03T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/four-chaplains-day\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:04:42","slug":"four-chaplains-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/four-chaplains-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Chaplains Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Four%20Chaplains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Four Chaplains.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Four Chaplains-thumb-250x352-8540.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"352\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Besides being Saint Blase Day, today is also known as &#8220;Four<br \/>\nChaplains Day.&#8221; The US Congress designated today to honor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourchaplains.org\/story.html\">4 US Army chaplains<\/a> who<br \/>\nwere serving on the USAT Dorchester during World War II.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; \">Father John P. Washington<br \/>\n(Roman Catholic priest), Rev. Clark V. Poling (Dutch reformed), Rev. George L. Fox<br \/>\n(Methodist), and Rabbi Alexander D. Goode sacrificed their lives as their ship<br \/>\nwent down. 672 of 902 men died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; \">All of the chaplains held the rank of lieutenant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; \">The Episcopal Church has designated February 3 a liturgical memorial for these chaplains.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides being Saint Blase Day, today is also known as &#8220;Four Chaplains Day.&#8221; The US Congress designated today to honor the 4 US Army chaplains who were serving on the USAT Dorchester during World War II.&nbsp; Father John P. Washington (Roman Catholic priest), Rev. Clark V. Poling (Dutch reformed), Rev. George L. Fox (Methodist), and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/four-chaplains-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Chaplains Day<\/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":[16],"tags":[2653,2654,2655],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230"}],"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=26230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}