{"id":3134,"date":"2010-01-15T00:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2010-01-14T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:48:07","slug":"christian-soldier-greater-love-hath-no-man-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/christian-soldier-greater-love-hath-no-man-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Soldier: Greater Love Hath No Man than This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/13\/father-says-soldier-died-doing-what-he-loved\/\">touching local news article<\/a> reports a father&#8217;s reaction to his son&#8217;s death in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The father, J.D. Hickman, was a former military man himself.\u00a0 Of his son, he said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jason was a man of faith, he was a Christian&#8230;Being former military, I can say if you&#8217;re going to die, there&#8217;s no better way of dying than dying for your country, for your people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The faith of these two men was important enough that it was a prominent part of a father&#8217;s intimate eulogy of his son.\u00a0 His legacy was that of a man of faith, even as he served his country in the US military.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked if there&#8217;s anything else he&#8217;d like to share regarding his son, Hickman is quiet for a moment. Then his voice cracks, &#8220;John 15:13.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing more needs to be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A touching local news article reports a father&#8217;s reaction to his son&#8217;s death in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The father, J.D. Hickman, was a former military man himself.\u00a0 Of his son, he said &#8220;Jason was a man of faith, he was a Christian&#8230;Being former military, I can say if you&#8217;re going to die, there&#8217;s no better way of dying than dying for your [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,88,23,2,10],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-bible","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}