{"id":7856,"date":"2015-10-02T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2015-10-02T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T09:30:36","slug":"the-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=7856","title":{"rendered":"The Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Charlie Saiz sends us these words<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the 6th Day of November back in 1887<br \/>\nA young man from Ballymote in Sligo<br \/>\nGot a call direct from Heaven&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;You must start yourself a Football Team in Glasgows troubled East<br \/>\nFor the maintenance of the poor and out of work<br \/>\nfor they have no penny to feast&#8221;<br \/>\nSo Marist Brother Walfrid went to help those in need<br \/>\nBut to feed the mouths of many his plan it had to succeed<br \/>\nAt St Mary&#8217;s Church in Calton was where it all began<br \/>\nA promise made by those who attended to do all they possibly can<br \/>\nJohn Glass and Brother Walfrid were to answer heavens call<br \/>\nBy creating a special Club to go out and play Football<br \/>\nCeltic played their opening game 28th of May 1888<br \/>\nUp against a Rangers side revered as being great<br \/>\nThe Bold Bhoys went out and showed their class<br \/>\nThat wonderful day in May<br \/>\nMcCallum opened the scoring of the 5 they scored that day<br \/>\nDollan, Pearson,McLauchlin,Kelly ,Madden and Murray<br \/>\nDunbar ,Gorevin two brothers from Cathcart<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Handsome Thomas and Willie Maley<br \/>\nBy playing attractive football with passion without fear<br \/>\nThe fans had paid their way they left with hope and cheer<br \/>\n2000 witnessed the magic and the weans would eat that day<br \/>\nThe score did not really matter for they had created the Celtic Way<br \/>\nFor the dinner tables were maintained the kids they had a feast<br \/>\nThe sun had truly risen and shone brighter in the East<br \/>\nOne can only imagine how those who answered Walfrids call<br \/>\nWould look upon the Celtic as we continue to play Football<br \/>\nOur Club became a giant both abroad and here at hame<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the club who that fed the many by simply playing a game.<br \/>\nTo this day this Football Club still answers Walfrids call<br \/>\nTo maintain it&#8217;s pledge of charity and remain a place for one and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Saiz sends us these words &nbsp; On the 6th Day of November back in 1887 A young man from Ballymote in Sligo Got a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-pledge.jpe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-22I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}