{"id":32871,"date":"2012-06-04T23:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_belief_blog_the_gospel_of_stephen_king\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T23:35:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:35:16","slug":"cnn_belief_blog_the_gospel_of_stephen_king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32871","title":{"rendered":"(CNN Belief Blog) The Gospel of Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy \u201d\u201c which he kept in a jar on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>With his beady eyes and I-just-killed-the-cat grin, King looks and sounds like a horror novelist. But when the Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl read several of King\u2019s novels, he learned something new about the author: There\u2019s a lot of faith behind his fright.<\/p>\n<p>Zahl says some of the most stirring affirmations of Christian faith can be found in the chilling stories of King. The horror master has been preaching sermons to millions of readers for years, only most of King\u2019s fans don\u2019t know it, he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/02\/the-gospel-of-stephen-king\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy \u201d\u201c which he kept in a jar on his desk. With<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32871\">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":[39,92,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-books","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871","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=32871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}