{"id":2042,"date":"2006-09-21T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2009-09-22T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:26:59","slug":"busted-eye-and-15-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/busted-eye-and-15-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted eye and 15 decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in Branson, Mo tonight. We left Rockwall, Texas Wednesday night at about 2 a.m. and made it to Branson by 10 or so this morning.<\/p>\n<p>We set up our wrestling ring, ate some lunch and then headed to the hotel for a few hours of naping.<br \/>\nOur show started at 6:30 p.m. tonight and nearly 250 kids showed up.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great atmosphere and everybody did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>We did have a somewhat minor injury tonight.<\/p>\n<p>When taking a move, Phil &#8220;The Bishop&#8221; Barron was thumbed in the eye and got a nice shiner as well as a 3\/4 inch gash below his eye.<\/p>\n<p>He powdered out of the ring pretty quickly, but carried on shortly there after.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the match and then came back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/250702184\/in\/set-72157594296405425\/\">give the Gospel presentation<\/a> at the end, bag of ice, bloody towel and all.<\/p>\n<p>God really spoke through him and he was able to use his accident to tell everyone that despite his sacrifice, Jesus&#8217; sacrifice on the cross was so much greater &#8211; even unto death.<\/p>\n<p>15 people made a response of some kind, including eight people who accepted Christ for the very first time.<br \/>\nWell, we&#8217;re back at the hotel tonight and plan to hit the road by 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be in Iowa for another show tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>How you can pray:<br \/>\nPraise God for souls that He touched tonight. Pray that they will get plugged into the church and grow closer to God. Also pray for Phil as he&#8217;s still waiting at the local hospital for stiches. And pray for safe travel tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in Branson, Mo tonight. We left Rockwall, Texas Wednesday night at about 2 a.m. and made it to Branson by 10 or so this morning. We set up our wrestling ring, ate some lunch and then headed to the hotel for a few hours of naping. Our show started at 6:30 p.m. tonight and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/busted-eye-and-15-decisions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busted eye and 15 decisions<\/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":[16],"tags":[2622,172,141,2623,671],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-squared-circle","tag-branson","tag-christian-wrestling-federation","tag-cwf","tag-missouri","tag-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-wW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}