{"id":70035,"date":"2025-07-31T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70035"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:01:47","slug":"after-50-years-of-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70035","title":{"rendered":"After 50 Years of Devotion,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.flos5-3.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/526763860_122241693794109340_8138547522136005835_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_eui2=AeG69JgFTXW8Mpq2j2bAslxl95I14iCFrWT3kjXiIIWtZAae3Xo4uHjTk3D5i6cFdbxiWqOt9RyfvqLd-aYVVOYU&amp;_nc_ohc=lOSUbTVOWtcQ7kNvwEOHXHz&amp;_nc_oc=Adk0gajnHXw3jkCNsoWdxFjHi3EC8Xl6XIshEqxH3kLuXl6J4oa_QRV5LJb2jTVUks8&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.flos5-3.fna&amp;_nc_gid=iaX0k7rMi3hgMGVt7QxGwA&amp;oh=00_AfReGLkJ72gjbhBvANOsZ8ZXLFSU_qadg3_Az1jUdygoJw&amp;oe=6890B4F2\" alt=\"May be an image of 1 person and text\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My grandmother, Eleanor, was the quiet backbone of her Southern Baptist church for nearly 50 years. She cooked, taught, donated, and showed up\u2014for everyone, always. When the church needed her, she was there. When&nbsp;<em>she<\/em>&nbsp;needed them after a devastating accident left her disabled, no one came. Not a visit. Not a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, she mailed in her tithe, sent cupcakes to the kids, and prayed along to sermons online. She kept the faith\u2014until the very end. In her final days, a pastor finally came. But not to comfort her. He came to ask if she\u2019d remembered the church in her will. She had<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69982\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother, Eleanor, was the quiet backbone of her Southern Baptist church for nearly 50 years. She cooked, taught, donated, and showed up\u2014for everyone, always. When the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70036,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70035\/revisions\/70036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}