{"id":62379,"date":"2017-08-13T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62379"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:42:07","slug":"gm-pastor-freed-from-north-korean-prison-lands-in-canada-in-good-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62379","title":{"rendered":"(G+M) Pastor freed from North Korean prison lands in Canada, &#8216;in good health&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim is home, &#8220;in good health&#8221; and &#8220;good spirits,&#8221; after being freed from a labour camp in North Korea earlier this week, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re extremely happy. We&#8217;re ecstatic and joyful that my father is now home,&#8221; James Lim, his son, said during a press conference at the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Mississauga Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lim, 62, was freed on &#8220;sick bail&#8221; Wednesday after a Canadian delegation, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s national security adviser Daniel Jean, visited the country to discuss his case \u2013 more than a year and a half after he was sentenced to a life of hard labour in North Korea after being accused of trying to overthrow the regime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/pastor-freed-from-north-korean-prison-lands-in-canada-will-attend-church-sunday\/article35977179\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim is home, &#8220;in good health&#8221; and &#8220;good spirits,&#8221; after being freed from a labour camp in North Korea earlier this week, his family said. &#8220;We&#8217;re extremely happy. We&#8217;re ecstatic and joyful that my father is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62379\">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":[207,483,102,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-north-korea","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62379","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=62379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62381,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62379\/revisions\/62381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}