{"id":1960,"date":"2007-01-11T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:36:45","slug":"my-boy-is-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/my-boy-is-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My boy is growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Crawford, who was &#8220;my son&#8221; one year for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umhb.edu\">UMHB&#8217;s<\/A> Welcome Week is being featured on the Beatitudes Society.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> When we got to the summit, we could not believe what we saw there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan expansive panoramic view of the northern part of San Francisco Bay and an exquisite lodge where we could sit and catch our breaths. They even poured us water out of wine bottles with fancy green leaves inside! I knew I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in Texas anymore. It was a far cry from the extreme poverty we saw everyday on the streets of San Francisco\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut geographically only a few miles away. I believe that there are people in my generation who want everyone to enjoy a better quality of life, who want to work to close the gap between the wealthy and the poor, who want to be better stewards of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creation. We believe that all of these visions are connected. Sometimes we have to take paths that haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been made yet, and sometimes we find roads that have been paved by those who have already been at it for decades, creating the society that my generation also wants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.beatitudessociety.org\/node\/133\">Read his full article<\/span><br \/>\nHe also has an <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.beatitudessociety.org\/blog\/Chad_Crawford\">ongoing blog<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Crawford, who was &#8220;my son&#8221; one year for UMHB&#8217;s Welcome Week is being featured on the Beatitudes Society. When we got to the summit, we could not believe what we saw there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan expansive panoramic view of the northern part of San Francisco Bay and an exquisite lodge where we could sit and catch our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/my-boy-is-growing-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My boy is growing up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[3175,3174,949,3173,109],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","tag-alumni","tag-beatitudes-society","tag-blog","tag-chad-crawford","tag-umhb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-vC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}