{"id":68465,"date":"2018-02-22T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68465"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:29:27","slug":"local-paper-front-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68465","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper front page) Billy Graham left a giant footprint, spreading evangelism from the South across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Beck, professor of Christian Studies at Charleston Southern University, grew up watching Graham\u2019s crusades on television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in many ways the heartbeat of the evangelical movement in the mid-20th century to the end. He was the face,\u201d he said. \u201cMost people are going to label him today the greatest evangelist or the greatest revivalist of the 20th century, and I think those are fairly accurate descriptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That said, Beck noted that neither his children nor his students are aware of Graham. \u201cHe\u2019s been retired longer than they\u2019ve been alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/features\/billy-graham-left-a-giant-footprint-spreading-evangelism-from-the\/article_6f9e6658-1719-11e8-aa84-d78f61bbabd8.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Beck, professor of Christian Studies at Charleston Southern University, grew up watching Graham\u2019s crusades on television. \u201cHe was in many ways the heartbeat of the evangelical movement in the mid-20th century to the end. He was the face,\u201d he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68465\">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":[54,209,419,440,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465","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=68465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68468,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions\/68468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}