{"id":3468,"date":"2014-03-05T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2014-03-05T00:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T06:07:12","slug":"happy-birthday-kurt-and-jon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY KURT, JON, AND&#8230;JOEL OSTEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140302_124551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3503\" alt=\"_20140302_124551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140302_124551-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My nephew Jon was born exactly thirty years after me.\u00a0 I am 56 and that of course means Jon is 26.\u00a0 The picture above is Jon professing his new faith in Christ through baptism.\u00a0 Praise God for His work of grace in Jon&#8217;s life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kurt is a dear friend I met in college.\u00a0 He was the campus director for Cru at Arizona State.\u00a0 There are many stories I could tell about Kurt, but here is one of my favorites.\u00a0 Kurt was salutatorian in his high school class along with being a gifted football player.\u00a0 Several academic schools pursued him including Yale and the University of Virgina.\u00a0 Kurt wanted to play at a school known for being competitive in football.\u00a0 As I recall, that meant doing a fifty year history of the most successful program which fit his other criteria.\u00a0 Hint: Notre Dame and Alabama were never in the mix as Kurt hates both of them.\u00a0 In any case, he decided on the University of Tennessee.\u00a0 He went on to say no to Yale, Dartmouth, Virginia, and others.\u00a0 Recently, Kurt made an offhand comment to someone that Yale was one of his &#8220;safety schools.&#8221; \u00a0The other fella figured Kurt was crazy or kidding. \u00a0Joke on him!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So happy birthday Jon and Kurt.\u00a0 You make my life much richer!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And happy birthday to Joel Osteen, who holds a very different view of the Christian life than me, but nonetheless shares March 5 as the date of his birth.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My nephew Jon was born exactly thirty years after me.\u00a0 I am 56 and that of course means Jon is 26.\u00a0 The picture above is Jon professing his new faith in Christ through baptism.\u00a0 Praise God for His work of grace in Jon&#8217;s life! Kurt is a dear friend I met in college.\u00a0 He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}