{"id":26952,"date":"2012-04-21T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T23:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/charles-colson-rip-at-80\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T23:53:39","slug":"charles-colson-rip-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/charles-colson-rip-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Colson, RIP at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Charles%20Colson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charles Colson.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/04\/Charles Colson-thumb-285x209-11506.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"209\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The famed Watergate figure who turned his soul over to Christ has died at the age of 80. He met the Lord at 3:12 pm earlier today.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Boston paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2012\/04\/21\/watergate_figure_charles_colson_has_died_at_80\/\">has a story<\/a>&nbsp;which you can contrast with <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2012\/04\/chuck-colson-1931-2012\/\">the Evangel blog piece hosted by First Things on Colson<\/a>;&nbsp;I am sure there will be many other comprehensive pieces on Mr Colson in the days ahead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His own organization <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckcolson.org\/?r=colson\">posted this tribute<\/a> to Chuck. It will be remembered that &#8220;Chuck&#8217;s life is a testimony to God&#8217;s power to forgive, redeem, and transform.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May Charles Colson rest in the peace of the Lord.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed Watergate figure who turned his soul over to Christ has died at the age of 80. He met the Lord at 3:12 pm earlier today. The Boston paper has a story&nbsp;which you can contrast with the Evangel blog piece hosted by First Things on Colson;&nbsp;I am sure there will be many other comprehensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/charles-colson-rip-at-80\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Colson, RIP at 80<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1778,2406,2178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}