{"id":44504,"date":"2014-06-09T05:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_faith-based_seattle_pacific_university_grief_without_despair\/"},"modified":"2014-06-09T05:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:35:55","slug":"at_faith-based_seattle_pacific_university_grief_without_despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44504","title":{"rendered":"At faith-based Seattle Pacific University, grief without despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the hours after a gunman killed one Seattle Pacific University student and wounded two others, what struck many was the way the students responded.<\/p>\n<p>They clasped hands in prayer circles; lifted their voices together to sing hymns; prayed for the shooter as well as the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never been more proud of this institution,\u201d\u009d Richard Steele, a professor in SPU\u2019s School of Theology, wrote in an email to friends. \u201cThe faith, courage and calmness were just stunning.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2023794834_spufaithxml.html\">Read it all<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hours after a gunman killed one Seattle Pacific University student and wounded two others, what struck many was the way the students responded. They clasped hands in prayer circles; lifted their voices together to sing hymns; prayed for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44504\">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":[39,42,154,108,124,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-violence","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44504","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=44504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}