{"id":2608,"date":"2007-10-24T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/australian_on_a_mission_to_stay_in_us_for_gods_work\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:11:00","slug":"australian_on_a_mission_to_stay_in_us_for_gods_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Australian on a mission to stay in U.S. for God&#39;s work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Stanley has been trying for years to save people&#8217;s souls over cups of coffee, but he can&#8217;t drink it.<br \/>\n&#8220;I did, until all this immigration stuff started,&#8221; Stanley said. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m too nervous as it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A tall, lean Australian who favors paisley shirts, keeps his long hair tied in a bandanna and rides a donated Harley, Stanley is an unlikely looking Episcopal missionary.<\/p>\n<p>His mission is odder still. A bright, airy coffeehouse, seemingly plucked from the suburbs and dropped among the abandoned storefronts of Aliquippa, Uncommon Grounds is Stanley&#8217;s base for starting a spiritual and civic revival of the decaying former mill town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/cityregion\/s_533896.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stanley has been trying for years to save people&#8217;s souls over cups of coffee, but he can&#8217;t drink it. &#8220;I did, until all this immigration stuff started,&#8221; Stanley said. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m too nervous as it is.&#8221; A tall, lean<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2608\">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":[36,48,395,74,66,440,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","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=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}