{"id":2258,"date":"2008-07-16T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/07\/16\/soccer-no-seminary\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:45:00","slug":"soccer-no-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/07\/16\/soccer-no-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer? No, Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Oddwalk friend Ricky for calling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsoccer.net\/news\/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&amp;pid=32603&amp;pcid=115\">this story<\/a> to our attention &#8211; Ricky says:<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic; \">Check this story. MLS player retires to enter seminary in Maryland. He was on a good team too.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The now-former professional soccer player had this to say:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/SH5ey8YbsSI\/AAAAAAAABt4\/wdAaDyc-QIk\/s200\/97747.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223716847091429666\" \/>&#8220;After years of discernment, I feel strongly that the Lord has called me to become a priest in the Catholic Church,&#8221; Hilgenbrinck said. &#8220;Playing professional soccer has been my passion for a long time and I feel blessed to have successfully lived out this dream. My passion now is to do the will of God, which is wanting only what He wants for me. Though I will miss the game of soccer, I know that I am moving on to something much greater.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Thanks to Oddwalk friend Ricky for calling this story to our attention &#8211; Ricky says: Check this story. MLS player retires to enter seminary in Maryland. He was on a good team too. The now-former professional soccer player had this to say: &#8220;After years of discernment, I feel strongly that the Lord has called me&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2008\/07\/16\/soccer-no-seminary\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}