{"id":252,"date":"2003-07-08T04:13:47","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T12:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/08\/careful-what-you-ask-for\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T04:13:47","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T12:13:47","slug":"careful-what-you-ask-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Careful What You Ask For"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"snip\"><b>Lightning Strikes Preacher Who Asked For Sign<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Bolt Hits Steeple, Travels Through Guest Evangelist&#8217;s Microphone <\/i><\/p>\n<p>(AP)<\/p>\n<p>FOREST, Ohio &#8212; Damage to a church in Forest, Ohio, is estimated at $20,000 after a preacher asked God for a sign.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the First Baptist Church said a guest evangelist was preaching repentance and seeking a sign from God when lightning struck the steeple.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Cheney called the incident &#8220;awesome, just awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cheney said the lightning traveled through the microphone, blew out the sound system and enveloped the preacher, who wasn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, services resumed for about 20 minutes until the congregation realized the church was on fire. The building was evacuated.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#105729104392363044\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=maxalt-cost-no-insurance\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning Strikes Preacher Who Asked For Sign Bolt Hits Steeple, Travels Through Guest Evangelist&#8217;s Microphone (AP) FOREST, Ohio &#8212; Damage to a church in Forest, Ohio, is estimated at $20,000 after a preacher asked God for a sign. A member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}