{"id":1927,"date":"2010-10-11T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:23:25","slug":"happy-columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/happy-columbus-day","title":{"rendered":"Happy Columbus Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Israel Wayne and his Facebook friend, Ed Gross, for pointing me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/columbus1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christopher Columbus&#8217;s Journal<\/strong> <\/a>where he make statements like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u200e&#8221;I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me.\u201dThere is no q&#8230;uestion that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Israel Wayne and his Facebook friend, Ed Gross, for pointing me to Christopher Columbus&#8217;s Journal where he make statements like: \u00a0\u200e&#8221;I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/happy-columbus-day\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-popular-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}