{"id":44965,"date":"2014-07-06T23:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_priest_damaskos_fit_right_in_at_greek_orthodox_church_of_the_holy_trini\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T23:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T23:29:33","slug":"new_priest_damaskos_fit_right_in_at_greek_orthodox_church_of_the_holy_trini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44965","title":{"rendered":"New priest Damaskos &#39;fit right in&#39; at Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Father Aristotle Damaskos was growing up, he and his Catholic cousins would always &#8220;play mass.&#8221; &#8220;And I was always the priest,&#8221; Damaskos, a Greek Orthodox priest for 26 years, said with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t until a church camp trip to Greece at the age of 15 that Damaskos felt the call from God to become a priest. Originally, he had wanted to be a meteorologist, but he realized &#8220;it was too much math.&#8221; As Damaskos likes to say, &#8220;If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God had other plans for me,&#8221; Damaskos said. Fifteen years later, he was ordained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140705\/PC1204\/140709734\/1015\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Father Aristotle Damaskos was growing up, he and his Catholic cousins would always &#8220;play mass.&#8221; &#8220;And I was always the priest,&#8221; Damaskos, a Greek Orthodox priest for 26 years, said with a smile. But it wasn&#8217;t until a church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44965\">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":[48,39,42,54,435,418,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44965","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=44965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}