{"id":2628,"date":"2025-09-04T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-hurricane-that-destroyed-a-church\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:54:17","slug":"the-hurricane-that-destroyed-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-hurricane-that-destroyed-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hurricane That Destroyed a Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hurricane blew a Christian church apart.<br>\nPeople wondered where was God.<br>\nWhy did He let the church be demolished?<br>\nWhere was the Divine protection?<br>\nWere the church members not holy enough?<br>\nHad the pastor comitted some grave sin?<br>\nAs for me, I think some disastors are random<br>\nwith no regard for the sanctity of a building.<br>\nJust as I don\u2019t think praying has ever repaired<br>\na broken down car, I don\u2019t think disasters are<br>\npreventable by the holiness of a place of worship.<br>\nOf course, maybe there are some exceptions.<br>\nBut in my belief that would be hard to prove.<br>\nI don\u2019t think randomn disasters make any exceptions.<br>\nIf a church if left untouched by a hurricane when<br>\nother buildings are demolished, I think it is more<br>\nlikely just coincidental and not divine protection.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hurricane blew a Christian church apart. People wondered where was God. Why did He let the church be demolished? Where was the Divine protection? Were the church members not holy enough? Had the pastor comitted some grave sin? As for me, I think some disastors are random with no regard for the sanctity of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-hurricane-that-destroyed-a-church\/\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}