{"id":36265,"date":"2012-12-17T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_portrait_of_a_newtown_r-c-_priest_in_whose_parish_1_2_of_the_chi\/"},"modified":"2012-12-17T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:30:16","slug":"wash-_post_portrait_of_a_newtown_r-c-_priest_in_whose_parish_1_2_of_the_chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36265","title":{"rendered":"Wash. Post portrait of a Newtown R.C. Priest in whose parish 1\/2 of the children killed were members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That night, Weiss was called to the police station and was assigned to call at the homes of two victims, along with a state trooper and a grief counselor.<\/p>\n<p>He knocked on one door at midnight \u201d\u201d that of a husband whose wife had been killed in the shooting \u201d\u201d and the next door at 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss knew both families well. They belonged to his church.<\/p>\n<p>In all those hours of counseling and comforting, no one asked the priest, \u201cWhy?\u201d\u009d The question came later, starting on Sunday, and Weiss did not have an answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/st-rose-priest-mourns-with-his-flock-over-newtown-conn-massacre\/2012\/12\/16\/a182283c-47dd-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That night, Weiss was called to the police station and was assigned to call at the homes of two victims, along with a state trooper and a grief counselor. He knocked on one door at midnight \u201d\u201d that of a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36265\">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":[48,39,42,101,438,98,435,154,184,436,177,108,364,107,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-ruraltown-life","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265","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=36265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}