{"id":1973,"date":"2011-03-28T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2011-03-28T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:19:07","slug":"realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Realization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAfter a brief review of my past emails, I've come across this one, a last email I received from Rev. David Chen in 2009:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>&quot;...Well, the only reason for me NOT to contact anyone from the Gospel<br \/>\nChurch or Student Fellowship(except two occasions) is that I don't think<br \/>\nit right or good to keep in touch with your former church. As long as<br \/>\nyou left the post of your previous ministry, you should cut any tied.<br \/>\nYou have no right to intervene any part of it. Don't call any of them.<br \/>\nIf any of them call for help, then you help. AND THAT IT IS MY PRINCIPLE<br \/>\nAND I FOLLOW. I am not interested in at all what other people do...&quot;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI had always thought Rev. Chen was talking only about himself...but I'm amazed how slow I am at realizing another possible variable...that he was also pointing at Rev. Serena Lin...that would certainly make a lot of sense, judging from his after reactions like not talking to Serena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief review of my past emails, I've come across this one, a last email I received from Rev. David Chen in 2009: &quot;...Well, the only reason for me NOT to contact anyone from the Gospel Church or Student &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1973\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}