{"id":861,"date":"2012-06-24T22:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T02:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/?p=861"},"modified":"2012-06-24T22:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T02:01:02","slug":"jonathan-jackson-thanks-god-in-his-daytime-emmy-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/06\/jonathan-jackson-thanks-god-in-his-daytime-emmy-acceptance-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Jackson Thanks God In His Daytime Emmy Acceptance Speech"},"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>Actor<strong> Jonathan Jackson<\/strong>, who has played Lucky Spencer (son of Luke and Laura!) on the soap <em>General Hospital<\/em> since he was a kid, won the Best Supporting Actor trophy at the Daytime Emmys on Saturday night. Although he won in the same category last year, Jonathan seemed giddy and excited. A devout Greek Orthodox Christian, he also took the opportunity to thank G-d in his acceptance speech. \u201cFirst of all, I have to give glory and honor to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,\u201d he said at the beginning of the speech. After getting in a few more traditional shoutouts (wife, kids, agent, costars, etc), he closed with \u201cThanks to all the monks on<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Athos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Mt. 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