{"id":723,"date":"2004-05-27T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=723"},"modified":"2004-05-27T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T19:21:14","slug":"re-starting-the-candidacy-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Re-Starting the Candidacy Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting the process to re-apply for candidacy in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\">ELCA<\/a>.  I&#8217;m taking it easy this time and writing my essay slowly and choosing my words carefully.  As I am in this process, I would like to ask that people keep me in prayer.  I didn&#8217;t ask for prayer last time and I think it would have made a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my specific requests:<br \/>\n-Pray for me as I write my essay to express myself and my call in a way that communicates that it isn&#8217;t about what I want, but about what God has called me to do<br \/>\n-Pray for me in the process as I deal with interviews and psych testing<br \/>\n-Pray for a job for me in the meantime<\/p>\n<p>If anyone wants to proofread my essay, also let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting the process to re-apply for candidacy in the ELCA. I&#8217;m taking it easy this time and writing my essay slowly and choosing my words carefully. As I am in this process, I would like to ask that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=723\">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":{"_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":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candidacy-schtuff","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-bF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}