{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-07T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T09:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-08-24T07:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:51:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About the Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hi! My name is Jim and I am a sinner saved by the grace of God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC00197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" title=\"Me with my Eldest\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC00197-300x225.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC00197-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC00197-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC00197.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I submitted to Christ as Lord after 30+ years of life, previously alternating between practical atheism,&nbsp;self-idol worship, and hypocritical Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>I was un-churched until the age of 13. My organized religious&nbsp;experience from that time&nbsp;started with charismatic\/ pentecostal\/ Episcopalianism. This was on Sundays and during times of youth group meetings. Also, during the week (for a couple of my teenage years) I attended a Catholic military junior high school (to tame my wickedness), being subjected to&nbsp;that religion&#8217;s beliefs as well.<\/p>\n<p>All through high school and college, I attended church to please my mother and keep up appearances. I also made friends in the church. However, my heart was far from God.<\/p>\n<p>More details to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My name is Jim and I am a sinner saved by the grace of God. I submitted to Christ as Lord after 30+ years of life, previously alternating between practical atheism,&nbsp;self-idol worship, and hypocritical Christianity. I was un-churched until the age of 13. My organized religious&nbsp;experience from that time&nbsp;started with charismatic\/ pentecostal\/ Episcopalianism. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}