{"id":1499,"date":"2017-09-28T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:50:06","slug":"a-sea-mans-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/a-sea-mans-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sea-Man&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1500\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sailor-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sailor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sailor.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>The ocean beckons me, as I stand upon the bow\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And gaze out as far as the eye can see\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A world, waiting for me\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Sea-air fills my lungs, as the ship turns about\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>With exhilarating energy I salute, Mother Liberty\u2014<\/h6>\n<h6>There\u2019s no longer a trace of doubt\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I have been chosen to stand in command<\/h6>\n<h6>Let fall what may, I\u2019m duty bound to sail upon the sea\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I am a sailor proud, to wear my uniform\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Victory won\u2026my battle song\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Anchor\u2019s away my friend\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Stand tall and true, for our Country\u2014<\/h6>\n<h6>All of you,<\/h6>\n<h6>Who will fight for the red, white and blue\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Once more we lift our hand and salute\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Our Commander-in-Chief, with a new belief\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Our land is made brand new\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Pray and believe and do not doubt<\/h6>\n<h6>God is watching us now\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The sea beckons, all of us, to bend the knee and bow<\/h6>\n<h6>Lift high the banner of Jesus Christ<\/h6>\n<h6>And watch as He fights for us now\u2014<\/h6>\n<h6>America, America\u2026God grant grace to thee.<\/h6>\n<h6>We put our hope and trust in God<\/h6>\n<h6>As we set sail upon the sea!<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1501\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Nation-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Nation-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Nation.png 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">~M. 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O\u2019Neill &#8211;\u00a0November 11, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Salute to my son, Mark Liverio, Sailor tried and true<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean beckons me, as I stand upon the bow\u2026 And gaze out as far as the eye can see\u2026 A world, waiting for me\u2026 Sea-air fills my lungs, as the ship turns about\u2026 With exhilarating energy I salute, Mother Liberty\u2014 There\u2019s no longer a trace of doubt\u2026 I have been chosen to stand in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-ob","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}