{"id":988,"date":"2009-12-21T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbcbeacon.wordpress.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:13:30","slug":"beacon-news-and-matt-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2009\/12\/21\/beacon-news-and-matt-chandler\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Note: Beacon News (and Matt Chandler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Just to let you know, I have been so encouraged by all of you visiting and reading the Beacon.  I&#8217;ve had people thank me, challenge me, and seen conversations flying around on Facebook.  And that makes it all worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>However, all this work doesn&#8217;t take place in a vaccuum.  With Christmas here, the team needs a rest, I need a rest (mostly to work on other Beacon-related activities), and quite frankly, you all might need a rest to spend time with your families.  And you should.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the Beacon is taking a two-week vacation (sort of).  There won&#8217;t be any updates to the blog except for the Weekly Links feature (since I do that, and if I build up three weeks of links, it won&#8217;t be pretty).  However, we should resume new LBC content on January 4th.  And just to whet your appetite, there should be a big announcement then, so you don&#8217;t want to miss it!<\/p>\n<p>Also, since I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=859\">my other post regarding Matt Chandler<\/a>, I thought it appropriate to provide you with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/2009\/12\/16\/praying-for-the-chandlers\/\">something of an update<\/a>.  Please keep him and his family in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for making the first few months here at the Beacon a wonderful time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers Hey Everyone, Just to let you know, I have been so encouraged by all of you visiting and reading the Beacon. I&#8217;ve had people thank me, challenge me, and seen conversations flying around on Facebook. And that makes it all worthwhile. However, all this work doesn&#8217;t take place in a vaccuum. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-note"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9846,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}