{"id":65630,"date":"2024-09-16T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=65630"},"modified":"2024-09-16T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:09:13","slug":"an-american-pastor-detained-in-china-for-nearly-20-years-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/an-american-pastor-detained-in-china-for-nearly-20-years-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"An American pastor detained in China for nearly 20 years has been released"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65631\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pastor-David-Lin--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pastor-David-Lin--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pastor-David-Lin--360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pastor-David-Lin-.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S., the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">State Department<\/a> said Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/us\/an-american-pastor-detained-in-china-for-nearly-20-years-has-been-released\/ar-AA1qEYxE?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=3d1b9625e9744e2ca0983e827812fc2e&amp;ei=118\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pastor-David-Lin-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65632,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630\/revisions\/65632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}