{"id":1911,"date":"2014-01-09T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w3.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2014-01-08T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T20:33:05","slug":"a-famine-of-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"A Famine of Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked 6 young men in our church a few questions while we were digging last Saturday:<br \/>\n1. &#8220;Did you live with or have a consistent relationship with your father growing up?&#8221;<br \/>\nAll 6 said no.<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Did your father make a significant impact in helping you to grow up?&#8221;<br \/>\nAll 6 said no.<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;Who would you look to as an example of a respectable man in your life&#8211;the kind of man that you might want to be like? Maybe he is not a believer, but at least he is dependable. Is there any man in your life that you admire?&#8221;<br \/>\nOne: my unsaved brother because he supports me and my mom.<br \/>\nOne: my unsaved uncle.<br \/>\nThe other 4 said no.<\/p>\n<p>Either fatherhood is not important, or we should expect a society where this is common to exemplify a history-making train wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked 6 young men in our church a few questions while we were digging last Saturday: 1. &#8220;Did you live with or have a consistent relationship with your father growing up?&#8221; All 6 said no. 2. &#8220;Did your father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[202,203,205,204],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rewarding-mediocrity","tag-fatherhood","tag-fathers","tag-informal-surveys","tag-profitable-discussions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-uP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}