{"id":997,"date":"2012-08-22T20:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/08\/22\/run-idiot-run\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T20:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:52:31","slug":"run-idiot-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/run-idiot-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Run, Idiot, Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Br. Jackson of the governing body concluding a talk @ LA District Convention had this neat illustration at the very end of the convention.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">He said &#8220;What if you were watching a football game on TV &#038; it was the Trojans against the Fighting Irish&#8230;&#038; it&#8217;s been a good game&#8230;and it&#8217;s coming down to the last seconds and the Trojans get the ball (then he stands like a football player) and then he starts running (and he picks up his foot like he&#8217;s going to take off) and you&#8217;re glued to the TV-just waiting to see what will happen&#8230;and he makes it to the 30 then the 20 then the 10 yard line and he&#8217;s at the one inch line&#8230;and he ..stops!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">THE GUY WITH THE BALL STOPS!!! ..and he starts looking around for the game clock..and he yells, &#8220;how much time do I have left?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">And you are staring at the TV in disbelief!!! What do you do?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">You yell at the TV -Run, Idiot!!!, Run!!!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8230;(Bro Jackson is yelling this from the stage) it was so hysterical- then he stops and says &#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">That&#8217;s where you are&#8230;This system is dying.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">We&#8217;re the event that the universe is watching.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">We are at the one inch line ..and some are stopping and looking around and wondering where we are in the stream of time.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">RUN!!! IDIOT!!! RUN!!! Don&#8217;t look at the time&#8230;just run&#8230;run&#8230;we&#8217;re almost there.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">It was a very dramatic ending.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Br. Jackson of the governing body concluding a talk @ LA District Convention had this neat illustration at the very end of the convention. He said &#8220;What if you were watching a football game on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}