{"id":33214,"date":"2012-06-24T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_faith_and_values_section_finding_refuge_in_minstering_to_others\/"},"modified":"2012-06-24T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T21:02:20","slug":"local_paper_faith_and_values_section_finding_refuge_in_minstering_to_others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33214","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper Faith and Values Section) Finding refuge in minstering to others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;[Shane Bowers] would be forced take baths after his brother, in dirty water that had gone cold hours earlier. He had to eat alone, standing in another part of his family\u2019s single-wide mobile home, and he was allowed only one serving. Often, he said, he\u2019d scrounge through the trash for a few more bites rather than go to bed hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he and his mom stopped going to church. Bowers tried reading the Bible, but without the sense of family he\u2019d found at church, it wasn\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n<p>His yearning for a change wasn\u2019t shaken, though. \u201cI just prayed that God would either kill me, let me die or take me out of that situation,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120624\/PC1204\/120629685\/1015\/finding-refuge-in-minstering-to-others\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;[Shane Bowers] would be forced take baths after his brother, in dirty water that had gone cold hours earlier. He had to eat alone, standing in another part of his family\u2019s single-wide mobile home, and he was allowed only one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33214\">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":[39,54,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214","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=33214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}