{"id":12855,"date":"2017-12-01T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:25:59","slug":"attending-church-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12855","title":{"rendered":"Attending Church in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard Al Sharpton and Jesse\u00a0Jackson were guest preachers at a nearby church, We decided to\u00a0go there and check them out in person.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as we sat down, Reverend\u00a0Sharpton came over to us. I don&#8217;t know why, maybe it was\u00a0because we were the\u00a0only white people in the church.\u00a0He laid his hands on my hand and said:\u00a0&#8220;By the will of Jesus the Lord Almighty, and the will of\u00a0God, you will walk\u00a0today.&#8221;\u00a0 I told him I was not paralyzed.\u00a0Then Jesse Jackson came by\u00a0and said to<br \/>\nme: &#8220;By the Grace of God, and his Son Jesus, the Lord\u00a0Almighty, you will\u00a0walk today.&#8221;\u00a0Again I said that there is nothing\u00a0wrong with me.<\/p>\n<p>After the sermon I stepped outside and lo and behold:<br \/>\n<strong>My Car Was Gone!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard Al Sharpton and Jesse\u00a0Jackson were guest preachers at a nearby church, We decided to\u00a0go there and check them out in person. As soon as we sat down, Reverend\u00a0Sharpton came over to us. I don&#8217;t know why, maybe it was\u00a0because we were the\u00a0only white people in the church.\u00a0He laid his hands on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attending Church in Chicago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12856,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}