{"id":6113,"date":"2011-04-28T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:49:08","slug":"obama-attends-easter-service-at-historic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6113","title":{"rendered":"Obama Attends Easter Service At  Historic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> and his family attended Easter service Sunday at a Washington church founded in 1863 by freed slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The first family entered Shiloh Baptist Church to a round of applause on a sun-splashed day in the nation&#8217;s capital as members of a choir dressed in black, white and gold sang &#8220;Total Praise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> shook a few hands and hugged some members of the congregation as he and his wife, <strong>Michelle<\/strong>, and their daughters, <strong>Malia<\/strong> and <strong>Sasha<\/strong>, walked to a second-row pew.<\/p>\n<p>According to the church&#8217;s pastor, <strong>Dr. Wallace Charles Smith<\/strong>, 21 freed slaves made it to the nation&#8217;s capital from Fredericksburg, Va., to establish a place where they could worship freely and where &#8220;they could reach others with the good news of their salvation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith<\/strong> wrote last September, on the church&#8217;s 147th anniversary, that the group &#8220;could not see the way ahead &#8230; but went forth to a land they felt God had given them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service Sunday at a Washington church founded in 1863 by freed slaves. The first family entered Shiloh Baptist Church to a round of applause on a sun-splashed day in the nation&#8217;s capital as members of a choir dressed in black, white and gold sang &#8220;Total [&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-6113","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\/6113","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=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}