{"id":4316,"date":"2014-07-12T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2014-07-11T23:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T04:09:37","slug":"pastors-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"PASTOR&#8217;S KID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3vpk1f28u6hn33cuep2gozpmvti.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/files\/2014\/07\/BarabasPiper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2923\" alt=\"Barnabas Piper, son of famed preacher, John Piper, shares honest insights about his upbringing in a new book. \" src=\"http:\/\/3vpk1f28u6hn33cuep2gozpmvti.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/files\/2014\/07\/BarabasPiper.jpg\" width=\"632\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnabas Piper (on the left) is one of John Piper&#8217;s sons.\u00a0 Barnabas has recently written a candid account of being a pastor&#8217;s kid (PK), especially the PK of a famous pastor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a revealing answer to a question (rest of interview below):<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><strong>Religion News Service: What is one thing people would be shocked to learn about the Piper household?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnabas Piper: Depends on who you ask. Those who are huge fans might be surprised to know that our family has a lot of tensions and quirks. We have dysfunction and conflict. We don\u2019t always get along very well. It\u2019s not the idyllic repository of peace and knowledge they might have painted a picture of in their heads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who see him as a heavy-handed fire breather would be surprised to know that he loves movies like <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1xaLuF8\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhat About Bob\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and is fiercely competitive. He even got a yellow card for berating a referee at one of my brothers\u2019 soccer games one time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com\/2014\/07\/01\/john-pipers-son-discusses-dysfunction-conflict-upbringing\/\">http:\/\/jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com\/2014\/07\/01\/john-pipers-son-discusses-dysfunction-conflict-upbringing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnabas Piper (on the left) is one of John Piper&#8217;s sons.\u00a0 Barnabas has recently written a candid account of being a pastor&#8217;s kid (PK), especially the PK of a famous pastor. Here is a revealing answer to a question (rest of interview below): Religion News Service: What is one thing people would be shocked to [&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":[40,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-pastor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}