{"id":2717,"date":"2008-08-08T11:03:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2008-08-08T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:03:12","slug":"prayers-for-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Prayers For Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: \"O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.\" And God granted it.\" -- Voltaire<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/elections\/dnc\/article.aspx?storyid=97203&catid=348\">A video producer for Focus on the Family<\/a> is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is giving his acceptance speech outdoor at Invesco Field at Mile High on Thursday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Shepard made the prayer request in his latest Internet video for the evangelical Christian group.<\/p>\n<p>He says he's only partly joking.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sure it's boyish humor perhaps to wish for something like that, but at the same time it's something people feel very strongly about. They're concerned about where he would take the nation,\" said Shepard. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah... religion.<\/p>\n<p><center>you shatter me, your grip on me, your hold on me<br \/>\nso dull it kills<br \/>\nyou stifle me<br \/>\ninfectious sense of hopelessness and prayers for rain<br \/>\ni suffocate, i breathe in dirt<br \/>\nand nowhere shines but desolate and drab<br \/>\nthe hours all spent on killing time again<br \/>\nall waiting for the rain<\/center><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XeXimHgkTkI&hl=en&fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XeXimHgkTkI&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ah... The Cure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: \"O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.\" And God granted it.\" -- Voltaire A video producer for Focus on the Family is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}