{"id":28,"date":"2009-04-14T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T01:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-04-14T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T01:22:25","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Going home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Father,<\/p>\n<p>You know I&#8217;m not happy about what happened.\u00a0 And I know You aren&#8217;t, either.\u00a0 But I know, if they&#8217;ll let You, You&#8217;ll work great things into the lives of the H&#8212;&#8211; family even after this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what Robert was thinking.\u00a0 I just keep remembering the look of&#8230; of disbelief and betrayal and fear on Melody&#8217;s face when he pointed that gun at her.\u00a0 I wanted Robert to learn to control his anger, to make amends, and find peace.\u00a0 I wanted him to really hear me when I told him how much You love him and his family.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m glad that police officer was there and kept Robert from killing his wife. \u00a0 I wish it could have ended without violence but I&#8217;m thankful she was spared and that Jason and Cera have their mother.\u00a0 And You.<\/p>\n<p>Since Francesca&#8217;s back from her vacation, my work here at the shelter is done.\u00a0 Thanks for letting me head to Dyeland.\u00a0 I think some time there will do me good.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be hard coming back here for the funeral but I know having some time with my friends before will help.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to leave when everyone&#8217;s still grieving.\u00a0 But I know You&#8217;re with them forever.\u00a0 Thank you for allowing me to be a part of their lives for these few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Father, You know I&#8217;m not happy about what happened.\u00a0 And I know You aren&#8217;t, either.\u00a0 But I know, if they&#8217;ll let You, You&#8217;ll work great things into the lives of the H&#8212;&#8211; family even after this tragedy. I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}