{"id":201357,"date":"2021-12-13T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=201357"},"modified":"2021-12-14T03:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T03:55:51","slug":"serenity-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/12\/serenity-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oh Lord<\/strong>, please grant me:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Serenity<\/strong> to accept the things I cannot change,<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Courage<\/strong> to change the things I can, and<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wisdom<\/strong> to know the difference.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you, Lord.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/prayer3.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-201358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/prayer3-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The Serenity Prayer was written by the American theologian <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reinhold_Niebuhr\" >Reinhold Niebuhr<\/a> (1892\u20131971). He composed it in 1932\u201333 and it spread rapidly, often without attribution, through church groups in the 1930s and 1940s. It was adopted and popularized by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcoholics_Anonymous\" >Alcoholics Anonymous<\/a> and other <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve-step_program\" >twelve-step programs<\/a>. <\/em>Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Lord, please grant me:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":201358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1177,805],"class_list":["post-201357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational","tag-inspirational","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}