{"id":126,"date":"2011-04-18T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=126"},"modified":"2021-01-12T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:11:00","slug":"religion-in-the-rural-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Religion in the rural South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was awakened at 4 a.m. by a schizophrenic beneath my 3rd-floor bedroom window alternately praising God and speaking in tongues at full voice until his throat gave out around 9:00.<\/p>\n<p>Last night one of the storefront churches in downtown Chester is conducting a revival. I was awakened at 1 a.m. by a rousing sermon from a preacher, at 2 a.m. by a songstress in Aretha Franklinesque full throat, and at 5 a.m. by another preacher reaching the crescendo of his sermon. Yep, 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>OMG, I see a light. Small, but coming at me fast like a train down a long dark tunnel. Is this a miracle following my two latest religious encounters? Yesss&#8230; dawn.<\/p>\n<p>It is said God moves in mysterious ways. I just wish He moved a little earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was awakened at 4 a.m. by a schizophrenic beneath my 3rd-floor bedroom window alternately praising God and speaking in tongues at full voice until his throat gave out around 9:00. Last night one of the storefront churches in downtown Chester is conducting a revival. I was awakened at 1 a.m. by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}