{"id":4950,"date":"2011-10-20T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:58:28","slug":"captain-america-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/captain-america-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, pop quiz time, what is the origin of the quotation below?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>\u201cWe often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don\u2019t know what to do, we never give up.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; ???<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in August, to coincide with the anniversary of 9\/11, there was an online\u00a0survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of\u00a0American Bible Society.\u00a0The survey found that more Americans attributed the above quotation to Captain America, Martin Luther\u00a0King, and President George W. Bush\u00a0than to St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 63%\u00a0believed the words came from <em><strong>somewhere other than<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%204:8&amp;version=NIV\">2 Corinthians 4:8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who says Biblical literacy is down?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/captain-america.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6565\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/captain-america.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/captain-america.jpg 504w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/captain-america-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, pop quiz time, what is the origin of the quotation below? \u201cWe often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don\u2019t know what to do, we never give up.\u201d &#8211; ??? Back in August, to coincide with the anniversary of 9\/11, there was an online\u00a0survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of\u00a0American Bible Society.\u00a0The survey found that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[503,2969,504,506,505,204,155],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-captain-america","tag-featured","tag-george-bush","tag-literacy","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-st-paul","tag-the-bible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56395,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/56395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}