{"id":2199,"date":"2014-05-25T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2014-05-25T23:28:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T07:28:09","slug":"a-very-special-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2014\/05\/25\/a-very-special-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"a very special guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AM_knighthood.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AM_knighthood\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AM_knighthood\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AM_knighthood_thumb.png\" width=\"307\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is our dear friend Al, receiving a knighthood from the Republic of France for his role on the beaches of Normandy, June 6, 1944. He has been invited to a special ceremony there this year (all expenses paid), but at 92, he doesn\u2019t want to chance it. He said to me today, \u201cI made it off those beaches alive once, I\u2019m not sure I can do it again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Al testifies that he is depending on the work of Jesus Christ to save his soul from sin. He regularly attends our services with his wife and brings one of our other ladies along with them as well. Yes, he is still driving and is as sharp as a tack. He is actually kind of hard to keep up with, but he is a real blessing to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our dear friend Al, receiving a knighthood from the Republic of France for his role on the beaches of Normandy, June 6, 1944. He has been invited to a special ceremony there this year (all expenses paid), but at 92, he doesn\u2019t want to chance it. He said to me today, \u201cI made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,72,133],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-zt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}