{"id":50490,"date":"2015-06-25T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scores_gather_in_summerville_sc_public_square_to_offer_prayer_for_charlesto\/"},"modified":"2015-06-25T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:00:05","slug":"scores_gather_in_summerville_sc_public_square_to_offer_prayer_for_charlesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50490","title":{"rendered":"Scores gather in Summerville SC public square to offer Prayer for Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week after the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, scores of Summervillians gathered in Hutchinson Square to pray together.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian prayer vigil, organized by the Summerville branch of the NAACP, featured uplifting hymns such as \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d\u009d and \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d\u009d and pastors from several local churches, including some who knew the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to decline (the invitation to speak) at first because I was so overwhelmed,\u201d\u009d said Pastor Kenneth Gerald.<\/p>\n<p>But then, he said, he remembered the Psalm that calls out for the Lord to lead the overwhelmed to a high rock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalscene.com\/article\/20150625\/SJ01\/150629841\/1059\/SJ01\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week after the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, scores of Summervillians gathered in Hutchinson Square to pray together. The Christian prayer vigil, organized by the Summerville branch of the NAACP, featured uplifting hymns such as \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50490\">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":[48,39,50,54,209,183,184,120,108,188,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50490","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=50490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}