{"id":74561,"date":"2018-10-24T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74561"},"modified":"2018-10-24T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:59:19","slug":"bbc-how-an-ex-heroin-addict-became-a-priest-in-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74561","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) How an ex-heroin addict became a priest in Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Darren Howie is a former thief and was addicted to heroin.<\/p>\n<p>He spent a decade in and out of prison &#8211; and was once told by a prison chaplain, when he weighed just six-and-a-half stone, that he would die once he left prison.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Howie got clean through a Christian rehabilitation programme&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/pursuits\/almost-half-of-u-s-births-happen-outside-marriage-signaling-cultural-shift\">Read it all and watch the whole video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You are never beyond the love and redemption of God. To think otherwise is a perverse idolatry. <\/p>\n<p>The ex-heroin addict who became a priest &#8211; BBC News  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s4JjqDSiRH\">https:\/\/t.co\/s4JjqDSiRH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fr. SJM-C+ (@FatherSJMC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FatherSJMC\/status\/1054696900526592000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reverend Darren Howie is a former thief and was addicted to heroin. He spent a decade in and out of prison &#8211; and was once told by a prison chaplain, when he weighed just six-and-a-half stone, that he would<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74561\">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":[389,99,104,435,184,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-prisonprison-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561","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=74561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74564,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74561\/revisions\/74564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}