{"id":37993,"date":"2013-04-25T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_105_minneapolis_ame_pastor_has_no_plans_to_retire\/"},"modified":"2013-04-25T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:00:28","slug":"at_105_minneapolis_ame_pastor_has_no_plans_to_retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37993","title":{"rendered":"At 105, Minneapolis AME Pastor Has No Plans To Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday mornings at Wayman AME Church in Minneapolis brings a faithful crowd. But it\u2019s quite likely no one there has said as many prayers as Noah Smith. It\u2019s not just because he\u2019s a preacher, it\u2019s because he\u2019s had more time to worship \u201d\u201c over a century in fact.<\/p>\n<p>At 105, Smith is still hard at work, preaching at Wayman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy life is so busy with church and things now. I don\u2019t even get to read the paper sometimes,\u201d\u009d said Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2013\/04\/14\/at-105-mpls-pastor-has-no-plans-to-retire\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday mornings at Wayman AME Church in Minneapolis brings a faithful crowd. But it\u2019s quite likely no one there has said as many prayers as Noah Smith. It\u2019s not just because he\u2019s a preacher, it\u2019s because he\u2019s had more time<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37993\">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":[48,39,42,103,435,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993","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=37993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}