{"id":28782,"date":"2015-12-11T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28782"},"modified":"2015-12-11T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:19:46","slug":"the-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/the-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Prayer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/300px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Praying_Hands_1508_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28783\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/300px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Praying_Hands_1508_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"Durer's &quot;Praying Hands&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"437\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBetende H\u00e4nde\u201d (\u201cPraying Hands\u201d)<br>Albrecht D\u00fcrer, ca. 1508<br>Wikimedia Commons public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was extremely busy yesterday from early in the morning until late at night \u2014 it was, among other things, my last teaching day this semester, and one of the classes actually took its final exam \u2014 and I missed mentioning yesterday\u2019s \u201cSocial\u201d component of the Church\u2019s \u201cA Savior is Born\u201d Christmas campaign:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So here it is. \u00a0It\u2019s a duet of \u201cThe Prayer\u201d by David Archuleta and Nathan Pacheco, and it\u2019s a beauty. \u00a0Please watch it:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8DRLmrboGK4&amp;feature=youtu.be?mdcid=10000\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8DRLmrboGK4&amp;feature=youtu.be?mdcid=10000<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I was extremely busy yesterday from early in the morning until late at night \u2014 it was, among other things, my last teaching day this semester, and one of the classes actually took its final exam \u2014 and I missed mentioning yesterday\u2019s \u201cSocial\u201d component of the Church\u2019s \u201cA Savior is Born\u201d Christmas campaign: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Prayer&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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