{"id":2940,"date":"2015-08-26T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2015-08-26T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:22:38","slug":"it-cant-happen-here-it-can-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"IT CAN&#8217;T HAPPEN HERE&#8212;IT CAN HAPPEN HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows how to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>American Christians, learn from the Iraqi Christians, the Syrian Christians, the Egyptian Christians, the Iranian Christians, the Sudanese Christians, the . . .<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for the same.<\/p>\n<p>Watch and pray, together.<\/p>\n<p>And pray some more.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for all those Christians facing persecution and those facing martyrdom.<\/p>\n<p>They will soon be praying for us.<\/p>\n<p>And pray for American pastors to speak boldly what really counts, while our freedom to do so remains, but uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to talk about it. No one knows how to prepare. American Christians, learn from the Iraqi Christians, the Syrian Christians, the Egyptian Christians, the Iranian Christians, the Sudanese Christians, the . . . Prepare for the same. Watch and pray, together. And pray some more. Pray for all those Christians facing persecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}