{"id":48506,"date":"2015-02-22T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_how_a_mom_shannon_sedgwick_davis_helped_dismantle_ugandan_warlord_joseph\/"},"modified":"2015-02-22T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:00:08","slug":"ct_how_a_mom_shannon_sedgwick_davis_helped_dismantle_ugandan_warlord_joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48506","title":{"rendered":"(CT) How a Mom, Shannon Sedgwick Davis, helped dismantle Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In May 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis flew to South Africa to meet with the Elders, a nonprofit founded by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter to bring peace to places of violence. She had been asked to join the Elders\u2019 advisory board in 2007\u201d\u201dan offer you don\u2019t turn down, Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>As she walked beside one of her heroes, she asked whether or not she should pursue Joseph Kony. The Ugandan warlord has, in the past two decades, abducted tens of thousands of children, forced them to slaughter their own families and friends, and then enlisted them in the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), his rebel army of child soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShannon, this one is clear,\u201d\u009d her mentor said without pausing. \u201cThis one is black and white.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2015\/januaryfebruary\/meet-mom-who-stopped-joseph-kony.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis flew to South Africa to meet with the Elders, a nonprofit founded by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter to bring peace to places of violence. She had been asked to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48506\">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":[39,50,202,108,328,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-religion-culture","category-uganda","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48506","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=48506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}