{"id":394,"date":"2006-10-30T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T13:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=394"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:24","slug":"wainwright-saves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Wainwright Saves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"156\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" alt=\"jesus-saves.jpg\" id=\"image395\" title=\"jesus-saves.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/jesus-saves.jpg\" \/>Into the sea of Cardinal red which filled downtown St. Louis during yesterday&#8217;s victory parade and celebration waded Dave Finke of Maryland Heights, Missouri. For Finke, a sidewalk evangelist, the &#8220;fields were red unto salvation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hopping aboard a pair of stilts for maximum visibility, Finke carried a &#8220;Jesus Saves&#8221; sign in one hand and a cross in the other. He ambled about among the revelers, a veritable John the Baptist crying out in a wilderness of concrete, glass and steel.<\/p>\n<p>Several partygoers stopped to have their pictures taken with Finke and engage him in conversation. Others offered up their own commentary asides as they passed him by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eckstein is <em>my<\/em> Jesus!&#8221; shouted one.<\/p>\n<p>Another quietly remarked, &#8220;Wainwright Saves,&#8221; proving once again that it is much easier and more natural to walk by sight rather than by faith.<\/p>\n<p><!--844df11dade784707eeef80bfaec4e79-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--844df11dade784707eeef80bfaec4e79-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--844df11dade784707eeef80bfaec4e79-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--844df11dade784707eeef80bfaec4e79-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--844df11dade784707eeef80bfaec4e79--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the sea of Cardinal red which filled downtown St. Louis during yesterday&#8217;s victory parade and celebration waded Dave Finke of Maryland Heights, Missouri. For Finke, a sidewalk evangelist, the &#8220;fields were red unto salvation.&#8221; Hopping&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22,36,51,42,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-christianity","category-eyes","category-religion","category-sports","category-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}