{"id":38222,"date":"2013-05-09T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_ortberg_on_dallas_williard_rip\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:00:40","slug":"john_ortberg_on_dallas_williard_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38222","title":{"rendered":"(CT) John Ortberg on Dallas Williard RIP&#8211;a Man from Another &#39;Time Zone&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Dallas wrote on spiritual formation and taught philosophy at the University of Southern California, one might think he came from a background associated with richness of education and culture and resources. In fact, he grew up in very poor circumstances in rural Missouri. His mother died when he was two; her last words to her husband were: &#8220;Keep eternity before the children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of impoverished conditions, Dallas grew up in a circle of different families; electricity did not come until he was mostly grown up.<\/p>\n<p>He read a book by Jack London once that contained a passage describing the world from an atheistic point of view. Dallas said that he&#8217;d never known books could contain such thoughts and ideas, and his mind was never quite the same after that awakening. He was nine years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2013\/may-web-only\/man-from-another-time-zone.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Dallas wrote on spiritual formation and taught philosophy at the University of Southern California, one might think he came from a background associated with richness of education and culture and resources. In fact, he grew up in very poor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38222\">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":[48,39,42,92,438,419,154,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-death-burial-funerals","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38222","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=38222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}