{"id":18170,"date":"2010-02-28T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/united_methodists_respond_to_chile_earthquake\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T05:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T05:30:05","slug":"united_methodists_respond_to_chile_earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18170","title":{"rendered":"United Methodists respond to Chile earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake struck at 3:34 a.m. and reports of damage continued to come in all day. The force of the earthquake was enough to jolt the 94-year-old mother of the Rev. Oscar Carrasco, a district superintendent in the United Methodist Northern Illinois Conference, from her bed in Curacaut\u00c3\u00adn.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Carrasco, Oscar\u2019s wife, reported that they had heard his mother was OK, but that his sister\u2019s house next door was heavily damaged. Her mother-in-law is keeping the family focused in prayer and she feels the family is blessed to be able to be together and prepare a meal. &#8220;Thank goodness for fire wood while Curacaut\u00c3\u00adn is isolated. \u201d\u00a6 bridges are out. There is a tense calm,&#8221; Carrasco said. &#8220;Still waiting to hear more news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A United Methodist volunteer-in-mission group from Wisconsin was thought to be in Chile when the earthquake occurred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&#038;b=2072519&#038;ct=8036675\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake struck at 3:34 a.m. and reports of damage continued to come in all day. The force of the earthquake was enough to jolt the 94-year-old mother of the Rev. Oscar Carrasco, a district superintendent in the United Methodist<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18170\">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":[50,42,613,360,154,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-chile","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170","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=18170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}