{"id":815,"date":"2008-01-07T00:32:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T04:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/01\/07\/premature-farewell\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:57:16","slug":"premature-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/815","title":{"rendered":"Premature farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We knew it would happen eventually, but none of us expected the abrupt reassignment of our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?s=%22Salvation+Army%22\">Salvation Army<\/a> officers at year\u2019s end. <\/p>\n<p>Our good-byes were said after today\u2019s worship service, and I tried to contain my personal sadness at the departure of a young man who I\u2019ve grown to admire greatly, and who became a true friend over the past four years. Zach was the first person who believed I could do some of the things I\u2019ve done, as I helped provide leadership to the Advisory Board. I shall always remember his maturity, compassion, dedication, and strong faith.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all, and followed him.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014Luke  5:11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew it would happen eventually, but none of us expected the abrupt reassignment of our local Salvation Army officers at year\u2019s end. Our good-byes were said after today\u2019s worship service, and I tried to contain my personal sadness at the departure of a young man who I\u2019ve grown to admire greatly, and who became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}