{"id":33823,"date":"2012-07-31T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/chad_bonham-a_conversation_with_u-s-_olympian_missy_franklin\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:30:16","slug":"chad_bonham-a_conversation_with_u-s-_olympian_missy_franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33823","title":{"rendered":"(Beliefnet) Chad Bonham&#8211;A conversation with U.S. Olympian Missy Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonham: Can you tell me about your faith journey?<\/p>\n<p>Franklin: Religion was not important in my parents\u2019 upbringing. Therefore I never had a church home. We occasionally attended a church service but I felt so uncomfortable and self-conscious as I didn\u2019t know what was expected. Before my freshman year I visited Regis Jesuit High School. As I walked in the main door, I felt at peace and knew I belonged there. From that first moment, I knew God was with me. Every day over the last three years, my faith has grown. One of my favorite times is going to our beautiful school chapel and spending time with God. This year, I attended Kairos with my Regis Jesuit sisters and it changed my life forever. I now really work on keeping my faith strong.<\/p>\n<p>Bonham: How has your faith in God specifically helped you deal with the challenges you\u2019ve faced as an Olympic hopeful?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspiringathletes\/2012\/06\/a-conversation-with-u-s-olympian-missy-franklin.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonham: Can you tell me about your faith journey? Franklin: Religion was not important in my parents\u2019 upbringing. Therefore I never had a church home. We occasionally attended a church service but I felt so uncomfortable and self-conscious as I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33823\">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":[39,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823","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=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}