{"id":32095,"date":"2012-04-22T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charles_w-_colson_watergate_felon_who_became_evangelical_leader_dies_at_80\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T01:27:10","slug":"charles_w-_colson_watergate_felon_who_became_evangelical_leader_dies_at_80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32095","title":{"rendered":"Charles W. Colson, Watergate Felon Who Became Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Colson was sent to prison after pleading guilty to obstructing justice in the Watergate affair. After having what he called his religious awakening behind bars, he spent much of the rest of his life ministering to prisoners, preaching the Gospels and helping to forge a coalition among Republican politicians, evangelical church leaders and Roman Catholic conservatives, helping to change the dynamics of American politics.<\/p>\n<p>It was a remarkable reversal&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/22\/us\/politics\/charles-w-colson-watergate-felon-who-became-evangelical-leader-dies-at-80.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Colson was sent to prison after pleading guilty to obstructing justice in the Watergate affair. After having what he called his religious awakening behind bars, he spent much of the rest of his life ministering to prisoners, preaching the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32095\">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":[48,39,40,42,438,419,133,154,184,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-evangelicals","category-history","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095","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=32095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}