{"id":46878,"date":"2014-11-14T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_boston_globe_profile_article_on_harvards_corbin_miller_and_his_recent_mor\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:26:35","slug":"a_boston_globe_profile_article_on_harvards_corbin_miller_and_his_recent_mor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46878","title":{"rendered":"A Boston Globe Profile Article on Harvard\u2019s Corbin Miller and his recent Mormon Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the norm for an 18-year-old, 19-year-old kid to want to take on, especially if you\u2019re playing basketball and going to a school like Harvard,\u201d\u009d Bret said. \u201cBut Corbin\u2019s a very spiritual person and it\u2019s just something that he wanted to do.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>When he walked the streets of Puebla, Miller understood the perception that might have shadowed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of times, people see Mormon missionaries coming down the street and they think, \u201d\u02dcThey\u2019re at it, they\u2019re forcing it, you\u2019ve got to listen to them, they want to convert you, they want to baptize you,\u2019 \u201d\u009d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the purpose was to invite others to come under Jesus Christ. Inform them about what we believe, and we always invited them to hold true to the truths that they know and then consider what we taught.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/2014\/11\/11\/harvard-corbin-miller-back-from-mormon-mission-ready-help\/up7yL5VN3FSRpUM4dEslZO\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the norm for an 18-year-old, 19-year-old kid to want to take on, especially if you\u2019re playing basketball and going to a school like Harvard,\u201d\u009d Bret said. \u201cBut Corbin\u2019s a very spiritual person and it\u2019s just something that he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46878\">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":[48,39,42,111,182,428,155,108,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-missions","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878","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=46878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}