{"id":7293,"date":"2017-08-31T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2017-09-01T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:14:06","slug":"michael-cromartie-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7293","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cromartie, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eF0TOt1xz5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/news\/michael-cromartie-r-i-p\/\">Michael Cromartie, R.I.P.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Michael Cromartie, R.I.P.&#8221; &#8212; Ethics &amp; Public Policy Center\" src=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/news\/michael-cromartie-r-i-p\/embed\/#?secret=RJ0ubj7Ch3#?secret=eF0TOt1xz5\" data-secret=\"eF0TOt1xz5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I met Mike about twenty years ago.\u00a0 We were in the beginning stages of launching Two Cities Ministries.\u00a0 We had a wonderful lunch over Chinese food at a quiet place in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Mike was one of the most influential Christian leaders you&#8217;ve probably never heard of.\u00a0 He was full of energy, loved people, and was a great raconteur.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plutarch said &#8220;small&#8221; things can reveal a man&#8217;s character.\u00a0 One thing stands out for me.\u00a0 Though Mike and I hardly knew each other he was always very quick to answer any question I sent him via email.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Through his creativity and tenacity Mike was able to win the trust of journalists across a wide swath of religious and political perspectives, no small feat!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Mike about twenty years ago.\u00a0 We were in the beginning stages of launching Two Cities Ministries.\u00a0 We had a wonderful lunch over Chinese food at a quiet place in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Mike was one of the most influential Christian leaders you&#8217;ve probably never heard of.\u00a0 He was full of energy, loved people, and [&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":[90,43,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-christianity","category-eulogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","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=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}