{"id":1175,"date":"2020-09-04T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T00:52:04","slug":"wonderful-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Mentor &#8211; Champion of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"KeithFerrin.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KeithFerrin.jpg\" alt=\"KeithFerrin\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/>We have been neighbors of the Ferrin family for nearly 30 years. Keith has been an inspiring mentor to me. Several years ago, he showed up at our door with a beautiful plaque he created with his scroll saw. \u00c2\u00a0He has created dozens of these, but I was honored to receive mine. It hangs in a place of honor in a corner of our living room.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"GodBless.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/GodBless.jpg\" alt=\"GodBless\" width=\"298\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the years since then it has been wonderful to be in Keith&#8217;s home and in his shop to witness firsthand his craftsmanship and kindness. He has blessed us with many other works of art from his wood shop. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A career Air Force fighter pilot and flight instructor, Keith is a veritable storehouse of wonderful stories about his service around the world. \u00c2\u00a0He is indeed a Champion of Freedom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been neighbors of the Ferrin family for nearly 30 years. Keith has been an inspiring mentor to me. Several years ago, he showed up at our door with a beautiful plaque he created with his scroll saw. \u00c2\u00a0He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champion-of-freedom","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}