{"id":2451,"date":"2007-10-14T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/not10\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T17:01:01","slug":"not10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Notable and Quotable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I died right this minute, I would be able to say, &#8216;God, what a ride! What a ride!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like &#8216;He was a nice guy&#8217; or &#8216;He was occasionally decent&#8217; or &#8216;Mike wasn&#8217;t as bad as a lot of people.&#8217; Unfortunately, eulogies are delivered by people who know the deceased. I know what the consensus would be. &#8216;Mike was a mess.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youthspecialties.com\/yaconelli\">Michael Yaconelli<\/a> (1942-2003), whom we sorely miss<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2003\/octoberweb-only\/10-27-51.0.html\">A Christianity Today article on him and his death is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I died right this minute, I would be able to say, &#8216;God, what a ride! What a ride!&#8217;&#8221; and &#8220;If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2451\">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":[48,184,442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-youth-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}