{"id":74,"date":"2006-02-20T22:58:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-02-20T22:58:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:58:56","slug":"old-friends-across-mobile-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/20\/old-friends-across-mobile-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Old friends across Mobile Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little could I have imagined that a fellow I once sat in speech class with at Ambassador College in Pasadena, California and I would wind up living 30 years later on opposite sides of Mobile Bay.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:12px;padding-top:7px;float:right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/BILDER\/dnhall1.jpg\" title=\"Dan and Nancy Hall with John Burquist\" alt=\"Dan and Nancy Hall with John Burquist\" height=\"179\" width=\"275\" \/> Dan Hall and I both graduated from the Pasadena campus of Ambassador in 1973, and our final semester there we were in the same speech class, which was a bit of a challenge all by itself. Dan married Nancy Embry, who was a year behind our class. Our paths didn&#8217;t cross again for about 6 years or so, since I went to Germany after graduation and Dan remained in southern California for a while and later moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. We saw each other at a Feast of Tabernacles in Virginia in 1979, enjoying a pizza together which we still talk about. Our paths cross more often now. Today Dan is a church pastor for the Living Church of God with a multi-church circuit in the Southeast. He and Nancy have lived just across Mobile Bay in Daphne, Alabama for about ten years, so we get together on occasion and reminisce about &quot;old times&quot; and wonder what the future will bring for our families and the people in the greater church of God community. Today&#8217;s lunch was a chance to catch up on recent events with Dan and Nancy and Living Church of God member John Burquist (in the picture with Nancy and Dan), my father-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little could I have imagined that a fellow I once sat in speech class with at Ambassador College in Pasadena, California and I would wind up living 30 years later on opposite sides of Mobile Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-in-the-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}