{"id":8284,"date":"2022-07-12T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:09","slug":"wrecking-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"WRECKING BALL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One time my dad was asked to join the Trustees Committee at a church where he was a relatively new member. If you&#8217;re not familiar with church lingo, the Trustees oversee building maintenance and repair. And this particular church building was, shall we say, &#8220;historic&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had some serious issues and the cost to renovate was going to be more than a stretch for the tiny congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Dad was always a straight shooter and didn&#8217;t hesitate to state his mind. He told the chair of the Trustees, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want me on that committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chair asked, &#8220;And why wouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dad replied simply, &#8220;Because my answer to most of the Trustees&#8217; problems will be two words: &#8216;wrecking ball&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There wasn&#8217;t an ounce of attachment in that man&#8217;s body for any stained glass window, no preference over carpet color, and no desire to make a pew more comfortable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a rarity among church members, to be sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One time my dad was asked to join the Trustees Committee at a church where he was a relatively new member. If you&#8217;re not familiar with church lingo, the Trustees oversee building maintenance and repair. And this particular church building was, shall we say, &#8220;historic&#8221;.\u00a0 It had some serious issues and the cost to renovate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}