{"id":2128,"date":"2020-04-16T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:44:17","slug":"community-conversation-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/community-conversation-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"CommUNITY Conversation Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/unnamed.png 940w, http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/unnamed-300x251.png 300w, http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/unnamed-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNewBaptistCovenant%2Fvideos%2F899117377226237%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 16, 2020, the Reverend Donald Ng participated in a Facebook Live panel discussion with New Baptist Covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent post, Dr. Ng expressed how it feels to be a person of color in these days of COVID-19, which Donald Trump describes as the &#8220;Chinese virus\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now we are required to wear masks whenever we are in public. For some people of color, this requirement is potentially just as risky as catching the virus since people may perceive them as criminals. Spring is when I have seasonal allergies. I try never to sneeze when I\u2019m on my walk. During this time of heightened fear, I think about the Good Samaritan whom Jesus talked about. By his appearance, he was an outcast and socially distanced until Jesus came.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 16, 2020, the Reverend Donald Ng participated in a Facebook Live panel discussion with New Baptist Covenant. In a recent post, Dr. Ng expressed how it feels to<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/community-conversation-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CommUNITY Conversation Interview<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-ng-interviews","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followgreg.com\/revdonaldng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}