{"id":2126,"date":"2011-04-27T20:19:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T03:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2011-04-27T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T03:19:54","slug":"died-david-wilkerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/died-david-wilkerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Died: David Wilkerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade, was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in Texas. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson was driving east on U.S. 175 in Texas Wednesday afternoon, and moved into the opposite lane where a tractor trailer was driving westbound. The truck driver saw the car and tried to move out of the way, but still collided with the pastor&#8217;s car head on, according to Public Safety Trooper Eric Long.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what caused Wilkerson to veer into the other lane.  His wife Gwen was also involved in the crash and rushed to the hospital, along with the truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2011\/April\/Rev-David-Wilkerson-Killed-in-TX-Car-Crash\/'>Rev. David Wilkerson Killed in TX Car Crash<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade, was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in Texas. He was 79. [&#8230;] Wilkerson was driving east on U.S. 175 in Texas Wednesday afternoon, and moved into the opposite lane where &#8230; <a title=\"Died: David Wilkerson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/died-david-wilkerson\/\" aria-label=\"More on Died: David Wilkerson\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}