{"id":137,"date":"2009-03-10T02:45:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnyatesministry.org\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:35:46","slug":"ripley-upward-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/ripley-upward-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripley, Upward Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really good night.\u00a0 Thank you for your prayers.\u00a0 I really didn&#8217;t know how things were going to go.\u00a0 There was a tragic accident last Friday (Feb. 27) that costs the life of one of the men on the Upward board at the church.\u00a0 He was a 37 year old father of 3 so the small community has been in shock.\u00a0 They were to have a moment of silence for his family followed by my program.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the kids were great.\u00a0 They were enthusiastic and very excited.\u00a0 They have not gone through all the decision cards but one was given to the pastor.\u00a0 A 31 year old mother gave her heart to Christ tonight.\u00a0 PTL!<\/p>\n<p>Please remember us as we head home tomorrow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a long drive, only about 360 miles or so but you know the road is full of &#8220;crazies&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a long road trip but a good one.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be home a few days before heading out to Gainesville, GA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to that time, for sure!<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a really good night.\u00a0 Thank you for your prayers.\u00a0 I really didn&#8217;t know how things were going to go.\u00a0 There was a tragic accident last Friday (Feb. 27) that costs the life of one of the men on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/ripley-upward-basketball\/\">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-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}