{"id":24667,"date":"2011-02-21T21:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/president_obama_gives_highest_award_to_christian_worker_murdered_in_afghani\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T21:18:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:18:01","slug":"president_obama_gives_highest_award_to_christian_worker_murdered_in_afghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24667","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Gives Highest Award to Christian Worker Murdered in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama today awarded the United States&#8217; highest civilian honor to Dr. Tom Little, a Christian worker for the International Assistance Mission (IAM) who was murdered in Afghanistan last August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tom Little could have pursued a lucrative career,&#8221; President Obama said during the ceremony for Little and 14 other recipients. &#8220;Instead, he was guided by his faith, and he set out to heal the poorest of the poor in Afghanistan. For 30 years, amid invasion and civil war, the terror of the Taliban, the spread of insurgency, he and his wife Libby helped bring Afghans\u201d\u201dliterally\u201d\u201dthe miracle of sight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2011\/02\/christian_worke.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama today awarded the United States&#8217; highest civilian honor to Dr. Tom Little, a Christian worker for the International Assistance Mission (IAM) who was murdered in Afghanistan last August. &#8220;Tom Little could have pursued a lucrative career,&#8221; President Obama<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24667\">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":[48,39,50,42,503,201,438,182,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-death-burial-funerals","category-missions","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24667","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=24667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}