{"id":26022,"date":"2017-11-09T04:30:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26022"},"modified":"2017-11-09T04:30:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T04:30:12","slug":"theyre-going-to-church-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26022","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re going to church this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tragedy quite often can beget courage.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a tiny community near San Antonio that is reeling from the monstrous act of evil that killed 26 people and injured 20 others. Some of the victims were children; one was an infant; yet another was an unborn child.<\/p>\n<p>First Baptist Church was rocked to its core. The community is in utter grief.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman walked into the church and methodically murdered about 7 percent of Sutherland Springs&#8217; population.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the courageous element: They&#8217;re going to have church on Sunday. The First Baptist Church family will gather in another location; its sanctuary is uninhabitable and well might have to be destroyed and rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>This is one measure of how courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy and evil presents itself.<\/p>\n<p>May the congregants feel the love of an entire nation as they gather to worship.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy quite often can beget courage. Such is the case in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a tiny community near San Antonio that is reeling from the monstrous act of evil that killed 26 people and injured 20 others. Some of the victims were children; one was an infant; yet another was an unborn child. First Baptist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They&#8217;re going to church this Sunday<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2037,7403],"class_list":["post-26022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-sutherland-springs-massacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26023,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26022\/revisions\/26023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}