{"id":5929,"date":"2010-07-21T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2010-07-21T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:30:09","slug":"matt-harrisons-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/07\/matt-harrisons-acceptance-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Harrison&#8217;s acceptance speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In case you missed it, here is the newly-elected president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod just after his election. \u00a0Note his demeanor, his words, and his spirit. \u00a0(If the clip doesn\u2019t show, hit \u201ccomments\u201d and it will.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here is the newly-elected president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod just after his election. \u00a0Note his demeanor, his words, and his spirit. \u00a0(If the clip doesn\u2019t show, hit \u201ccomments\u201d and it will.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1340,1404],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","tag-lutheran-church-missouri-synod","tag-matthew-harrison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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