{"id":7534,"date":"2019-09-30T04:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/an-honest-obituary\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:01","slug":"an-honest-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/an-honest-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"An Honest Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Ray Charping died, and his Galveston, Texas, family, dictated his obituary.  \u201cAt a young age, Leslie quickly became a model example of bad parenting,\u201d the obit says, with a \u201ccommitment to drinking, drugs, womanizing and being generally offensive.\u201d  He died at 75, \u201cwhich was 29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved.\u201d  Further, \u201che will be missed only for what he never did; being a loving husband, father and good friend.\u201d  He did serve in the Navy, but \u201cas part of a plea deal to escape sentencing on criminal charges.\u201d  On the positive side, \u201cLeslie\u2019s passing proves that evil does in fact die and hopefully marks a time of healing and safety for all.\u201d  The family did not hold a memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>KTRK Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Ray Charping died, and his Galveston, Texas, family, dictated his obituary. \u201cAt a young age, Leslie quickly became a model example of bad parenting,\u201d the obit says, with a \u201ccommitment to drinking, drugs, womanizing and being generally offensive.\u201d He died at 75, \u201cwhich was 29 years longer than expected and much longer than he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5387,5258,5388,739,1971,1474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}