{"id":123,"date":"2005-03-29T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2007-11-08T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T21:24:36","slug":"don-king-takes-on-emerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Don King takes on Emerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following appeard in the church newsletter for the Geneva church back on January 18, 1976. It was written by Don King, minister here for many years. I offer his words without comment one way or the other. What do you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I like the quiet church before the service begins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emerson did say it and it is quoted voer and over as an admonition to people to come into church and sit quietly waiting for something to start. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Do you come to church to sit alone and meditate? Or to greet your friends and to participate in a common activity?<\/p>\n<p>I like the active church before the service begins &#8212; the coffee committee running back and forth, parents bringing their children to the nursery, friends speaking to each other, Alliance or church officers catching each other to talk business &#8212; the whole feeling of people with something to do. Let the children wander around; go speak to your friend.<\/p>\n<p>When the prelude starts is time to settle down.<\/p>\n<p>I like the active church before the service begins.<\/p>\n<p>DBK<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following appeard in the church newsletter for the Geneva church back on January 18, 1976. It was written by Don King, minister here for many years. I offer his words without comment one way or the other. What do you think? &#8220;I like the quiet church before the service begins.&#8221; Emerson did say it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}