{"id":1018,"date":"2012-08-07T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:35:54","slug":"the-baton-rouge-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/the-baton-rouge-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baton Rouge Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a quick turn-around trip when, on Sunday, I left and drove to Baton Rouge for a Monday presentation. \u00a0Patty did not go due to a continued sinus affection but she is much better now.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a teacher&#8217;s retreat for Parkview Christian School. \u00a0There were 140 teachers\/administrators present as we had a period of worship followed by some words from the host pastor and testimony from the president of the school board. \u00a0After a brief break, I was to entertain and close out the morning session with an encouraging word using my &#8220;friends&#8221;. \u00a0I did my best. \u00a0I felt it did not go as well as maybe it could have but that just happens sometimes, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful to my friends there who offered their home on Sunday night and came Monday to help me move in the necessary equipment then stuck around for support. \u00a0Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll lead worship tomorrow night at Hillcrest then we will leave Saturday for Tuscaloosa. Thanks for checking in!<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a quick turn-around trip when, on Sunday, I left and drove to Baton Rouge for a Monday presentation. \u00a0Patty did not go due to a continued sinus affection but she is much better now. The event was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/the-baton-rouge-gig\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}