{"id":25686,"date":"2011-04-17T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thunders_durant_finds_a_different_calling_in_the_nba\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:00:27","slug":"thunders_durant_finds_a_different_calling_in_the_nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25686","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#39;s Durant finds a different calling in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s leading scorer walks slowly into the Oklahoma City Thunder locker room, his eyes fixed on an open black leather Bible with his name engraved on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>A pack of reporters awaits him, but he remains embedded in Paul&#8217;s Letter to the Ephesians, a book in the New Testament. He reads carefully in front of his locker for several minutes, marking favored passages with a light blue highlight pen.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after reading the command, &#8220;Find your strength in the Lord, in his mighty power,&#8221; Kevin Durant closes his Bible and lifts his eyes to the reporters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/04\/16\/1781659\/thunders-durant-finds-a-different.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s leading scorer walks slowly into the Oklahoma City Thunder locker room, his eyes fixed on an open black leather Bible with his name engraved on the cover. A pack of reporters awaits him, but he remains embedded in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25686\">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":[39,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686","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=25686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}