{"id":53083,"date":"2016-01-23T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_the_missionary_killed_by_islamist_terror\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:06:20","slug":"wsj_the_missionary_killed_by_islamist_terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53083","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Missionary Killed by Islamist Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 political season is churning with anti-immigrant vitriol and wariness of the outside world. But one group of American Christians\u201d\u201dmissionaries\u201d\u201dcontinues reaching out instead of walling themselves off. They honor Christ\u2019s message in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25: \u201cWhatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The selfless work of missionaries was poignantly illustrated by the terrorist murder on Jan. 15 of 45-year-old Michael Riddering, an orphanage director in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-missionary-killed-by-islamist-terror-1453419371\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 political season is churning with anti-immigrant vitriol and wariness of the outside world. But one group of American Christians\u201d\u201dmissionaries\u201d\u201dcontinues reaching out instead of walling themselves off. They honor Christ\u2019s message in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25: \u201cWhatever<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53083\">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":[39,40,50,202,542,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-burkina-faso","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53083","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=53083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}