{"id":5925,"date":"2005-06-12T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/12\/faster-pastor\/"},"modified":"2005-06-12T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T00:22:29","slug":"faster-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/faster-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">A reader sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/05161\/519756.stm\">following article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">JENNERSTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Twenty-five men of the cloth will be vying for a different fabric tomorrow: a checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Jennerstown Speedway is holding its first-ever &quot;Faster Pastor&quot; auto race, a novelty featuring area clergy as drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;We expected that five or so members of the clergy would be willing to take part,&quot; racetrack general manager Larry Mattingly said. &quot;We ended up having to cut off the number of interested pastors at 25.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In fact, so many clergy members signed up for the race that they&#8217;ll have to share cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;That shouldn&#8217;t be a problem with this group,&quot; Mattingly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"> I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. I wonder if there might be different theological driving styles. Some might believe in salvation by race alone. That all is race. They of course would not have a pit stop. The goal of most preaching is to avoid the pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link to the following article. JENNERSTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Twenty-five men of the cloth will be vying for a different fabric tomorrow: a checkered flag. Jennerstown&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}