{"id":39078,"date":"2013-07-16T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/baseballs_darryl_strawberry_buries_his_past_in_new_career_as_a_pastor\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:29:00","slug":"baseballs_darryl_strawberry_buries_his_past_in_new_career_as_a_pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39078","title":{"rendered":"Baseball\u2019s Darryl Strawberry buries his past in new career as a pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberry, in his first media interview since becoming a preacher and opening his own ministry three years ago, will talk for two hours about his drug and alcohol addiction. He\u2019ll tell chilling details about prison life and crack houses. He\u2019ll tear up telling the pain and shame he caused his family, six children and two ex-wives before marrying Tracy, also an ordained minister, six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to spend the rest of his life talking about his passion that he says is more rewarding than anything he felt on the baseball field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never wanted to exist as Darryl Strawberry, the baseball player,\u201d\u009d he says. \u201cI wanted to let go that identity. It\u2019s not who I am.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/07\/16\/baseballs-darryl-strawberry-buries-his-past-in-new-career-as-a-pastor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberry, in his first media interview since becoming a preacher and opening his own ministry three years ago, will talk for two hours about his drug and alcohol addiction. He\u2019ll tell chilling details about prison life and crack houses. He\u2019ll<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39078\">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":[39,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078","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=39078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}