{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-25T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-03-05T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T10:03:47","slug":"everyones-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s Buddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BuddyCollage1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32\" alt=\"BuddyCollage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BuddyCollage1-300x243.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buddy Keith (&#8220;Mr. Keith&#8221; to generations of Houghton Academy students) has been a Houghton fixture and foundational character of this community for several decades. \u00a0We had to say goodbye to him this week. \u00a0He is celebrating with the saints and is reunited with his wife Lenora. \u00a0He touched so many lives. \u00a0The church was packed for his funeral yesterday with people coming great distances to honor his memory.<\/p>\n<p>I find no better way to exemplify what I am trying to accomplish with this site than honoring Mr. Keith as the initial post. \u00a0Please submit by email or comment. \u00a0The comments do have to wait for my approval so please don&#8217;t submit them multiple times. \u00a0Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>I am not fully finished planning how I want people to log in to this site so please send any anecdotes about Mr. Keith with media attached to:<\/p>\n<p>submissions @ houghtonstories.com<\/p>\n<p>(Take the spaces out of the address they are added to help reduce spam)<\/p>\n<p>You may attach pictures and also recordings up to 36 megs total per message. \u00a0If you have something larger to submit then write to submissions and I can work something out.<\/p>\n<p>Any text only stories can be added as comments if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral recording can be found on the Houghton Wesleyan Church podcast on iTunes . \u00a0You can subscribe here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/houghton-wesleyan-church-sermons\/id272114250?mt=2\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/houghton-wesleyan-church-sermons\/id272114250?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/houghton-wesleyan-church-sermons\/id272114250?mt=2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3?http:\/\/media.houghtonstories.com\/hwcpodcast\/20130224HWCFuneralBuddyKeith.mp3\"> listen here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Nathan<\/p>\n<p>Please be kind to me I am new to blogging and will undoubtedly learn as I go. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buddy Keith (&#8220;Mr. Keith&#8221; to generations of Houghton Academy students) has been a Houghton fixture and foundational character of this &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/?p=25\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[9,8,11,10],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical-sketch","category-uncategorized","tag-buddy-keith","tag-houghton-academy","tag-houghton-college","tag-houghton-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houghtonstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}