{"id":42900,"date":"2014-03-04T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/north_korea_releases_australian_missionary\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:00:36","slug":"north_korea_releases_australian_missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42900","title":{"rendered":"North Korea releases Australian missionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move Monday, North Korean officials freed a Christian missionary from Australia who was arrested for handing out Bibles in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>John Short, 75, allegedly apologized for his behavior and begged for his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now realize the seriousness of my insult to the Korean people on Feb. 16 because I made the Korean people angry, and for this I truly apologize,\u201d\u009d Short said, according to a report on the state news agency. \u201cI am willing to bow down on my knees to request this tolerance of (North Korea) and the Korean people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2014\/03\/north_korea_releases_australian_missionary\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move Monday, North Korean officials freed a Christian missionary from Australia who was arrested for handing out Bibles in Pyongyang. John Short, 75, allegedly apologized for his behavior and begged for his freedom. \u201cI now realize the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42900\">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":[48,39,50,201,204,182,483,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-australia-nz","category-missions","category-north-korea","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42900","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=42900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}