{"id":5054,"date":"2010-10-13T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/the-chile-rescue-a-deacon-candidate-who-knows-the-drill.html"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:16:41","slug":"the-chile-rescue-a-deacon-candidate-who-knows-the-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/the-chile-rescue-a-deacon-candidate-who-knows-the-drill.html","title":{"rendered":"The Chile rescue: a deacon candidate who knows the drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, whataya know?  I got an email this morning from a reader, alerting me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxhouston.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/101012-trapped-miners-have-houston-company-to-thank\">this piece about Greg Hall<\/a>, a Houston man who owns a drilling company involved in the rescue of the miners in Chile. &nbsp;Greg Hall also happens to be a deacon candidate, scheduled to be ordained next year.  That subject comes up toward the end of the interview with a local TV station, below.     <\/p>\n<p><center><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" id=\"video\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxhouston.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=4894\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxhouston.com\/video\/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=4894\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"&amp;skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&amp;embed=true&amp;adSizeArray=300x240,,&amp;adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ekriv%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3D101012%2Dtrapped%2Dminers%2Dhave%2Dhouston%2Dcompany%2Dto%2Dthank%3Bloc%3Dsite%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D5133205158635974%3Frand%3D0%2E9248993811197579&amp;flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxhouston%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D133488011&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxhouston%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2010%2F10%2F12%2F101012trappedminers9pm%5Ftmb0004%5F20101012212031%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&amp;story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxhouston%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F101012%2Dtrapped%2Dminers%2Dhave%2Dhouston%2Dcompany%2Dto%2Dthank&amp;category=local&amp;title=101012trappedminers9pm&amp;oacct=foximfoximkriv,foximglobal&amp;ovns=foxinteractivemedia\" name=\"FlashVars\" \/><param value=\"all\" name=\"allowNetworking\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\" \/><\/object><\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, whataya know? I got an email this morning from a reader, alerting me to this piece about Greg Hall, a Houston man who owns a drilling company involved in the rescue of the miners in Chile. &nbsp;Greg Hall also happens to be a deacon candidate, scheduled to be ordained next year. 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