{"id":50650,"date":"2015-07-05T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lowcountry_south_carolina_religious_leaders_reflect_on_the_real_meaning_of_\/"},"modified":"2015-07-05T21:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:25:58","slug":"lowcountry_south_carolina_religious_leaders_reflect_on_the_real_meaning_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50650","title":{"rendered":"Lowcountry South Carolina Religious Leaders reflect on the Real Meaning of Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Isaac Holt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Pastor, Royal Missionary Baptist Church<\/p>\n<p>North Charleston<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness is done as soon as humanly possible by those who know the toxic consequences of not forgiving.<\/p>\n<p>In forgiveness, the benefit is greater for the forgiver than for the forgiven. Forgiveness begins emotional healing. It releases you from the poisonous thoughts of personal revenge and the prison of hatred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150703\/PC1204\/150709816\/1015\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Isaac Holt Jr. Senior Pastor, Royal Missionary Baptist Church North Charleston Forgiveness is done as soon as humanly possible by those who know the toxic consequences of not forgiving. In forgiveness, the benefit is greater for the forgiver<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50650\">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":[48,39,54,175,168,184,177,129,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650","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=50650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}