{"id":1225,"date":"2020-01-26T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:05:51","slug":"from-five-years-ago-how-kobe-bryants-catholic-faith-pulled-him-through-his-darkest-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"From five years ago: &#8220;How Kobe Bryant\u2019s Catholic Faith Pulled Him Through His Darkest Hour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4e0404a200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4e0404a200d-200wi\" alt=\"Kobe bryant\" title=\"Kobe bryant\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose the lesson from today&#8217;s terrible crash taking five lives &#8211; life is always precious &#8230; and precarious. This was sent to me by my friend Jessica and is an article from five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchpop.com\/2015\/12\/26\/how-kobe-bryants-catholic-faith-pulled-him-through-his-darkest-hour\/?fbclid=IwAR3Nixx-3BztwV8Vaj152f8VgYzjRjBvVrLV6g9XcAai_f0zWHp3uEL3IIU\">What most people don\u2019t know, though, is that he\u2019s (Bryant) Catholic. And that, according to a recent interview, his Catholic faith helped him through one of the darkest times of his life.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose the lesson from today&#8217;s terrible crash taking five lives &#8211; life is always precious &#8230; and precarious. This was sent to me by my friend Jessica and is an article from five years ago. What most people don\u2019t know, though, is that he\u2019s (Bryant) Catholic. And that, according to a recent interview, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}