{"id":1661,"date":"2014-06-25T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.info\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2014-06-25T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:57:08","slug":"ppm-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/ppm-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"PPM Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get Friday off to drive down to Georgia for a Pagan Prison Ministry workshop. Should be fun, haven&#8217;t worked with Darla for a while now. I was going to have a friend go with me but she couldn&#8217;t get the time off.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may be like, what&#8217;s a Pagan Prison Ministry? Well, it&#8217;s simple. We minister. To pagans. In prison. We don&#8217;t care whether they are studying with us for a better life when they get out or they are studying with us from a worse life before going in. Ethics and morality are important, and having a sensible religious basis for them helps.<\/p>\n<p>It is a true statement that some inmates study with us just to get extra free time. I was amazed a year ago to meet the young men at Foothills Correctional Facility in Morganton, NC, and see how hard they had worked. Maybe they got into it for a party but they didn&#8217;t stay in it for a party. We are making a difference in these peoples&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>May you also be making a difference in the lives you touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get Friday off to drive down to Georgia for a Pagan Prison Ministry workshop. Should be fun, haven&#8217;t worked with Darla for a while now. I was going to have a friend go with me but she couldn&#8217;t get the time off. Some of you may be like, what&#8217;s a Pagan Prison Ministry? Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,45,82],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moss-bliss","tag-paganism","tag-prison-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}