{"id":2534,"date":"2007-06-16T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T23:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:47:43","slug":"graham-says-his-wife-had-a-great-reception-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/graham-says-his-wife-had-a-great-reception-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham says his wife &#8216;had a great reception in heaven&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/religion\/stories\/061707dnnatruthgraham.f2ca46.html\">AP<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ruth Graham retained her beauty even in death and surely &#8220;had a great reception in heaven,&#8221; an ailing Billy Graham told a packed auditorium of mourners who gathered Saturday to remember his beloved wife.<br \/>\n&#8220;I wish you could look in that casket because she&#8217;s so beautiful,&#8221; said Graham, clinging to his walker. &#8220;She was a wonderful woman.&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n Billy Graham, who is 88 and is largely confined to the couple&#8217;s home in Montreat by several ailments, wasn&#8217;t expected to speak Saturday. But the world&#8217;s most renowned evangelist, who preached to more than 210 million people during his six-decade career, surprised the crowd with his words, perhaps spurred by the sight of his 19 grandchildren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP: Ruth Graham retained her beauty even in death and surely &#8220;had a great reception in heaven,&#8221; an ailing Billy Graham told a packed auditorium of mourners who gathered Saturday to remember his beloved wife. &#8220;I wish you could look in that casket because she&#8217;s so beautiful,&#8221; said Graham, clinging to his walker. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/graham-says-his-wife-had-a-great-reception-in-heaven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graham says his wife &#8216;had a great reception in heaven&#8217;<\/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":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-ES","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","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=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}