{"id":37235,"date":"2013-02-11T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/toronto_blue_jay_r-a-_dickey_tells_of_his_journey_to_rescue_indias_youth_fr\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:00:10","slug":"toronto_blue_jay_r-a-_dickey_tells_of_his_journey_to_rescue_indias_youth_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37235","title":{"rendered":"(Toronto Blue Jay) R.A. Dickey tells of his journey to rescue India&#39;s youth from  sex slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Note that last season Dickey played with the New York Mets and he will be with Toronto this season&#8211;KSH).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This is Kamathipura, the red light district of Mumbai, among the most notorious sex-trafficking locations in the world. I am here as a guest of Bombay Teen Challenge (BTC), a charity that has been fighting human trafficking for more than 20 years, one I joined forces with last year, when two friends and I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and raised $130,000 , much of it from generous and kind-hearted Mets fans. I have come with my two daughters, Gabriel, 11, and Lila, 9, to witness the fruits of our climb \u201d\u201c the conversion of a former brothel to a health clinic. I want my daughters to share the experience not so much as a gratitude check, but to learn that each of us has a capacity to make a difference in this world, and to see that God\u2019s grace makes that possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/recalls-journey-rescue-india-youth-horrors-sex-slavery-article-1.1259918?pgno=1?pmSlide=0\">Read it all<\/a>, noting please that its content may not be appropriate for some blog readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note that last season Dickey played with the New York Mets and he will be with Toronto this season&#8211;KSH). This is Kamathipura, the red light district of Mumbai, among the most notorious sex-trafficking locations in the world. I am here<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37235\">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":[39,50,209,175,201,101,168,119,481,114,177,88,108,112,128,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-sports","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37235","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=37235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}