{"id":10070,"date":"2008-12-09T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/connecticut_embraces_faith_based_programs_for_ex_cons_homeless\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T21:12:16","slug":"connecticut_embraces_faith_based_programs_for_ex_cons_homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10070","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Embraces Faith-Based Programs For Ex-Cons, Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men who live at Taste-N-See Outreach Ministry in Bridgeport have been praising God in song and scripture for a good hour when Pastor James Jennings urges them to their feet shortly after 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>There are about a dozen ex-cons here, their histories muddy with violence and drugs and shame, but they stand and embrace each other with awkward grins and thumping backslaps, one after the other, as Jennings looks on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes we think love is what we say, but love is what we do,&#8221; Jennings says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-faithbased1207.artdec07,0,5679953.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men who live at Taste-N-See Outreach Ministry in Bridgeport have been praising God in song and scripture for a good hour when Pastor James Jennings urges them to their feet shortly after 7:30 a.m. There are about a dozen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10070\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,88,102,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-poverty","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}