{"id":40659,"date":"2020-01-06T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40659"},"modified":"2020-01-06T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:35:07","slug":"heres-a-thought-pray-with-our-eyes-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40659","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a thought: Pray with our eyes open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23churchshootings&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>A blog item I posted about the threat posed by shooters who walk into houses of worship produced an interesting response from a dear friend of mine who happens to be a member of the clergy.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned a doctor friend of his who took the course necessary to obtain a concealed handgun carry permit. My friend said he doesn&#8217;t know if his friend brings his gun to church on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But he added: <em>My doctor told me that churches are the most vulnerable places because we all close our eyes to pray.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was talking, of course, about the White Settlement, Texas, church shooting that left two parishioners dead before a security guard shot the gunman to death six seconds after he opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a cautionary message in my friend&#8217;s response. I think from now on I will pray with my eyes open.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23churchshootings&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog item I posted about the threat posed by shooters who walk into houses of worship produced an interesting response from a dear friend of mine who happens to be a member of the clergy. He mentioned a doctor friend of his who took the course necessary to obtain a concealed handgun carry permit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s a thought: Pray with our eyes open<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2037,9131],"class_list":["post-40659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-white-settlement-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40660,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40659\/revisions\/40660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}