{"id":25011,"date":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/holdfast-bay-council-ditches-prayer\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:00:00","slug":"holdfast-bay-council-ditches-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/holdfast-bay-council-ditches-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Holdfast Bay Council ditches prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Local council turns its back on \u201coutdated custom\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>For decades the council has opened all meetings with a simple prayer, which it has now decided to abolish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavenly Father, we pray for your presence and guidance at our council meeting. Grant us your wisdom and protect our integrity as we carry out the powers and responsibilities entrusted to us on behalf of the community that we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear the reaction from Reverend Kym Smith on FIVEAA breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/187215543&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/warning-read-this-if-you-have-home-wi-fi\">WARNING &#8211; READ THIS IF YOU HAVE HOME WI-FI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/these-baby-names-are-illegal\">THESE BABY NAMES ARE ILLEGAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local council turns its back on \u201coutdated custom\u201d. For decades the council has opened all meetings with a simple prayer, which it has now decided to abolish. \u201cHeavenly Father, we pray for your presence and guidance at our council meeting. Grant us your wisdom and protect our integrity as we carry out the powers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-25011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Holdfast Bay Council ditches prayer - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/holdfast-bay-council-ditches-prayer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holdfast Bay Council ditches prayer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Local council turns its back on \u201coutdated custom\u201d. 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