{"id":13799,"date":"2009-07-09T01:55:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T01:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_crawford_of_texas_on_general_convention_day_one\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T01:55:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T01:55:43","slug":"mark_crawford_of_texas_on_general_convention_day_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13799","title":{"rendered":"Mark Crawford of Texas on General Convention Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the 76th General Convention is &#8220;Ubuntu&#8221; derived from the African Bantu meaning, &#8220;I am because we are. We share in order to prompt others to hear the call to action&#8221;. General Convention really is more than elections, adopting budgets and passing resolutions. We hope and pray that the leadership of our church will receive a new inspiration for mission and ministry. Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to his times as &#8220;the fierce urgency of now.&#8221; We are faced with a similiar challenge in our world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edotnews.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/from-rev.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of the 76th General Convention is &#8220;Ubuntu&#8221; derived from the African Bantu meaning, &#8220;I am because we are. We share in order to prompt others to hear the call to action&#8221;. General Convention really is more than elections,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13799\">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":[36,66,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","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=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}