{"id":4644,"date":"2013-01-11T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2013-01-11T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T03:53:35","slug":"i-am-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4644","title":{"rendered":"I Am Stunned and Saddened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\/story\/20564919\/social-media-guru-rickcaffeinated-dies-of-natural-causes-before-crash\" title=\"My friend Rick.\">Social media guru RickCaffeinated dies of natural causes before crash.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Rick through blogs4God in late 2002\/early 2003 where we were both moderators.  He and I exchanged friendly barbs via our blogs and got to be friends.  When I was denied candidacy for ministry in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\" title=\"ELCA\">ELCA<\/a> in 2003, he was one of the people who helped me pick up the shattered pieces of my confidence.  When I had an ovarian cyst and insurance decided not to pay for it, he sent me some money to help me pay some of my medical bills with the stipulation that I not worry about paying him back.  He guest-posted when I was on vacation and we exchanged Christmas cards.  Our friendship continued on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> where I would mock him and his wife when their tweets got too mushy for me.<\/p>\n<p>People talk about how the Internet is a faceless place.  I beg to differ.  He was part of a community of people online who came with me on every one of my moves as a pastor&#8217;s wife.  My world is definitely better place because he was part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for his wife Vicki and their kids Trace and Cammi.<\/p>\n<p>As a way of paying tribute to him here, I&#8217;m linking his guest posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=712\" title=\"Guest Blogging &#038; Politics\">Guest Blogging &#038; Politics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=713\" title=\"Giving Props\">Giving Props<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=717\" title=\"HBD\">HBD<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=852\" title=\"Travellin??\">Travellin??<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=854\" title=\"Winter Weather\">Winter Weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God speed, Rick.  I look forward to you showing me all the cool coffee places when we meet again someday in Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media guru RickCaffeinated dies of natural causes before crash. I met Rick through blogs4God in late 2002\/early 2003 where we were both moderators. He and I exchanged friendly barbs via our blogs and got to be friends. When I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-personal-issues","category-web-schtuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1cU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}