{"id":427,"date":"2007-06-15T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/billy_grahams_wife_ruth_dies\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T03:41:00","slug":"billy_grahams_wife_ruth_dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham&#39;s wife Ruth dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world&#8217;s most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87.<\/p>\n<p>Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all five children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruth was my life partner, and we were called by God as a team,&#8221; Billy Graham said in a statement. &#8220;No one else could have borne the load that she carried. She was a vital and integral part of our ministry, and my work through the years would have been impossible without her encouragement and support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/nation\/4891094.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world&#8217;s most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=427\">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":[48,42,438,419,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}