{"id":72,"date":"2010-04-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/president-obama-has-not-cancelled-national-day-of-prayer.html"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T11:30:00","slug":"president-obama-has-not-cancelled-national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/president-obama-has-not-cancelled-national-day-of-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Has NOT Canceled National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning, there&#8217;s a big rumor going around that President Obama has canceled <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/about\/faqs\/\">National Day of Prayer <\/a>2010, scheduled for May 6.<strong> It&#8217;s not true<\/strong>, despite what your search engine and e-mails tell you. <\/p>\n<p>The rumormongers seem to have seized on last year&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/05\/obama-cancels-national-prayer-day-service.html\"> L.A. Times blog post <\/a>about Obama opting not to have a special White House service for the occasion. (This was 2009, not 2010.) National Day of Prayer is now in its 59th year, but the White House service was a President George W. Bush tradition.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Obama is also not a Muslim. <\/p>\n<p>If anything changes, I&#8217;ll let you know, based on what I hear from the White House and trusted news sources.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning, there&#8217;s a big rumor going around that President Obama has canceled National Day of Prayer 2010, scheduled for May 6. 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