{"id":5610,"date":"2015-06-18T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2015-06-18T11:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T16:45:45","slug":"charleston-church-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON CHURCH SHOOTINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I spent the summer of 1980 in South Carolina.\u00a0 Lots of wonderful people there, but I saw examples of blatant racism I&#8217;d never experienced.\u00a0 In fact, I once had to break up a fight between a white business owner (rumored to be part of the KKK) who pulled a knife on a black employee.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I worked at a gas station and told certain people I would not serve them if they continued to use offensive language directed at black people.\u00a0 I remember some staring at me like I was from Mars.\u00a0 Ironically, I felt like I was visiting Mars at times!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ps. 116:15; Jn. 11:25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the shootings in Charleston:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2015\/06\/18\/clementa-c-pinckney-1973-2015-pastor-of-mother-emanuel-a-m-e-in-charleston-sc\/\">http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2015\/06\/18\/clementa-c-pinckney-1973-2015-pastor-of-mother-emanuel-a-m-e-in-charleston-sc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/19\/us\/charleston-church-shooting.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/19\/us\/charleston-church-shooting.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the summer of 1980 in South Carolina.\u00a0 Lots of wonderful people there, but I saw examples of blatant racism I&#8217;d never experienced.\u00a0 In fact, I once had to break up a fight between a white business owner (rumored to be part of the KKK) who pulled a knife on a black employee.\u00a0 I [&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":[3,43,106,39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity","category-church","category-healing","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}