{"id":29850,"date":"2011-12-14T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st-_louis_church_channels_anger_over_pujols_for_good\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:00:19","slug":"st-_louis_church_channels_anger_over_pujols_for_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29850","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis church channels anger over Pujols for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As members of The Gathering began to hear of the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments after Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols had signed a $254 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, they decided to act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard people were burning their Pujols jerseys, and someone said, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t we ask them to donate the jerseys, and we&#8217;ll give them away?'&#8221; said the Rev. Matt Miofsky, the pastor of the United Methodist church.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-year-old church christened the effort, the &#8220;Recycle the Five Drive,&#8221; a play on Pujols&#8217; jersey number. It began Facebook and Twitter campaigns to let disappointed Cardinals fans turn their anger into a positive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-12-12\/church-pujols-jersey-charity\/51846696\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As members of The Gathering began to hear of the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments after Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols had signed a $254 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, they decided to act.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29850\">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":[48,39,42,360,154,184,128,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-sports","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29850","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=29850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}