{"id":46265,"date":"2014-10-08T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_diocese_of_bristol_story-i_just_thought-the_bible_was_a_story_about_a_n\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:15:47","slug":"a_diocese_of_bristol_story-i_just_thought-the_bible_was_a_story_about_a_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46265","title":{"rendered":"A Diocese of Bristol Story&#8211;&#34;I just thought..[The Bible] was a story about a nice bloke&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 8 I decided I didn\u2019t want to go to church anymore and I refused to go every Sunday. As far as I was concerned, church was a venue for weddings and funerals, nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t give my faith any more thought until I was in my 30s.<\/p>\n<p>To my horror, my wife had started going to church and had decided to become a Christian. I refused to talk to her about church or her faith because I thought she had been taken in by the \u201ccult\u201d\u009d and did my best to talk her out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I thought we had been happy together, both believing in God, but not Jesus. Now she was even happier, talking about her faith in Christ, going to church and reading the bible through choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.anglican.org\/2014\/voice-story-nice-bloke\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 8 I decided I didn\u2019t want to go to church anymore and I refused to go every Sunday. As far as I was concerned, church was a venue for weddings and funerals, nothing else. I didn\u2019t give<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46265\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,440,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265","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=46265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}