{"id":545,"date":"2022-02-24T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/?p=545"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T12:46:25","slug":"first-they-came-time-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/first-they-came-time-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"First they came, Time to Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\u201cFirst they came . . .\u201d by Martin Niemoller<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<p class=\"workAuthorByline\">First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Because I was not a Socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out\u2014<br \/>\nBecause I was not a Trade Unionist.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out\u2014<br \/>\nBecause I was not a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>Then they came for me\u2014and there was no one left to speak for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<strong>Martin Niem\u00f6ller,\u00a0<\/strong>The author was a Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Germany in 1892.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shenandoahliterary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Niemoller.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Powerful words for the current situation I think.\u00a0 On my knees.\u00a0 Time to #Pray #Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst they came . . .\u201d by Martin Niemoller First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out\u2014 Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out\u2014 Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsconiston.org.uk\/prayerandpraise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}