{"id":2283,"date":"2011-11-11T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2011-11-11T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:47:03","slug":"richard-rescued-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/richard-rescued-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard, Rescued Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember him as a doorman at the now-defunct Rescue Mission in Portland (Oregon).<\/p>\n<p>He served there, helping rescue down-and-outers.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them were quite wrecked.<\/p>\n<p>Early this morning, Richard was rescued from this life. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rescued, I say!<\/p>\n<p>He had a long walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Accompanied, I believe, by the Good Shepherd.<\/p>\n<p>Now another of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/churches\/hopewell.html\" title=\"Anabaptists | Hopewell Mennonite Church\">Hopewell&#8217;s<\/a> spent veterans is Home.<\/p>\n<p>Complete, whole, well, perfect &#8212; Richard Allan (1920-2011).<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\"><i>&#8220;Precious<br \/>\nin the sight of the Lord<br \/>\nis the death of his saints.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nPsalm 116:15<\/div>\n<p>May the Lord comfort and bless his family&#8230;and reward them further for their faithful service to Richard in his last days and years.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember him as a doorman at the now-defunct Rescue Mission in Portland (Oregon). He served there, helping rescue down-and-outers. Some of them were quite wrecked. Early this morning, Richard was rescued from this life.<!-- 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":[4,534],"tags":[72,641],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-todays-thought","tag-christianity","tag-death"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","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=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}