{"id":29906,"date":"2014-09-16T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:13:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T04:13:52","slug":"chick-fil-a-founder-truett-cathy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/chick-fil-a-founder-truett-cathy-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A Founder Truett Cathy Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truett Cathy, founder of the privately-held chicken sandwich chain Chick-fil-A, died last week at the age of 93. Cathy led a truly &#8220;faith-based&#8221; company, even eschewing opening on Sunday to provide his employees time with their families and a day of rest.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0business earned more in six days than other companies did in seven.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/r-g-letourneau-mover-of-men-and-mountains\/\">R.G. LeTourneau<\/a>, Cathy demonstrated that one can live his life consistent with his faith and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=43315\">still be a successful professional<\/a>. The Cathys never compromised their values, despite pressure to do so, and yet continued to treat everyone they served and employed with respect.<\/p>\n<p>An uncompromising life for Christ can be a successful life even in this world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truett Cathy, founder of the privately-held chicken sandwich chain Chick-fil-A, died last week at the age of 93. Cathy led a truly &#8220;faith-based&#8221; company, even eschewing opening on Sunday to provide his employees time with their families and a day of rest. His\u00a0business earned more in six days than other companies did in seven. Like R.G. LeTourneau, Cathy demonstrated that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3422,944,17,10,171,4752],"class_list":["post-29906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-letourneau","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-truett-cathy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}