{"id":12472,"date":"2012-01-26T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12472"},"modified":"2012-01-26T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:22:39","slug":"in-new-orleans-elderly-pray-away-gang-violence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12472","title":{"rendered":"In New Orleans, Elderly Pray Away Gang Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several times a week, a group of six women and one man pray for their city as they drive through their gang-infested neighborhood in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Millie Campbell<\/strong>, 76, and <strong>Betty Minor<\/strong>, 69, are a part of the group who has been blessing the city for the past six weeks. As<strong> Campbell<\/strong> drives with Minor in her blue Chevrolet through the 7th Ward, <strong>Campbell<\/strong> says: Oh, God, we thank you for the blood of Jesus. Touch this block in the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>When<strong> Minor<\/strong> isn\u2019t punctuating <strong>Campbell\u2019s<\/strong> prayers with a number of \u201cHallelujahs\u201d and \u201cGlorys,\u201d she adds: Cover your children, Father God. In the name of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>A number of clergy, organizations, and youth ministries are all involved in the effort to stem the murder and mayhem that continues day by day in New Orleans, this small group believes that when a situation becomes too heavy to bear, one must take it to the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times a week, a group of six women and one man pray for their city as they drive through their gang-infested neighborhood in New Orleans. Millie Campbell, 76, and Betty Minor, 69, are a part of the group who has been blessing the city for the past six weeks. As Campbell drives with Minor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}