{"id":36890,"date":"2013-01-22T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/after_breaking_his_neck_in_a_fall_a_former_episcopal_bishop_of_albany_faces\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:00:01","slug":"after_breaking_his_neck_in_a_fall_a_former_episcopal_bishop_of_albany_faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36890","title":{"rendered":"After breaking his neck in a fall, a former Episcopal Bishop of Albany faces a spiritual fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 50 years, Bishop David Ball has visited the sick and dying in local hospitals, offering them healing prayers, a gentle touch and often a funny story to cheer them up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after a fall in July that broke the 86-year-old Episcopal prelate&#8217;s neck but not his spirit, he finds himself in the unaccustomed position of being on the receiving end of so much proffered grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful and amazed by the kindness and skill of the care I&#8217;m receiving here,&#8221; Ball said Friday afternoon at Albany Medical Center Hospital during a pause in a physical therapy session<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Bishop-finds-inner-strength-4210081.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 50 years, Bishop David Ball has visited the sick and dying in local hospitals, offering them healing prayers, a gentle touch and often a funny story to cheer them up. Now, after a fall in July that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36890\">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":[36,39,66,104,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-health-medicine","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890","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=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}