{"id":1315,"date":"2008-11-22T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T13:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2008-11-22T07:31:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T13:31:28","slug":"god-helped-dr-ernest-charlesworth-get-back-on-the-tour-de-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/god-helped-dr-ernest-charlesworth-get-back-on-the-tour-de-life\/","title":{"rendered":"God helped Dr. Ernest Charlesworth get back on the &#8220;tour de life.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from gosanangelo.com<\/p>\n<p>By BECCA NELSON Special to the Standard-Times<\/p>\n<p>Struck by a car while riding his bicycle last February, Charlesworth spent 57 days in the hospital and underwent three months of physical rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, riding a bicycle has been a metaphor for our journey through life,&#8221; said Charlesworth, 63. &#8220;We all start at Point A, and we all finish the &#8216;tour de life&#8217; at Point B. It is not about how fast we go. It is about doing the best that we can as we pedal to God&#8217;s finish line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five months after the incident, he tried to finish his interrupted ride.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"gosanangelo.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/22\/accident-leads-to-spiritual-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>link to the full article at www.gosanangelo.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from gosanangelo.com By BECCA NELSON Special to the Standard-Times Struck by a car while riding his bicycle last February, Charlesworth spent 57 days in the hospital and underwent three months of physical rehabilitation. &#8220;To me, riding a bicycle has been <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/god-helped-dr-ernest-charlesworth-get-back-on-the-tour-de-life\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[492,493,234],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","tag-bicycle-accident","tag-physical-rehabilitation","tag-san-angelo-texas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}