{"id":573889822,"date":"2016-10-01T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573889822"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:54:58","slug":"he-was-watching-football-in-church-there-was-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/he-was-watching-football-in-church-there-was-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"He watched football &#8230; in church (there was praying)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are here: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct16\/oct01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It is a chapel on a small college campus in north Georgia. Also, a football game was celebrated on the front lawn, just after the bride and groom drove away. Before that, however:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, he was watching football during a wedding. That&#39;s what happens when you book a ceremony in the fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTvsUGA?src=hash\">#UTvsUGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJs5FbiDRZ\">pic.twitter.com\/SJs5FbiDRZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/782355218965094400\">October 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some 10,000 people have seen that on Twitter and it got picked up by a couple of those re-write sites. Every once in a while you get one that really takes off &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he was watching the Georgia &#8211; Tennessee game. The hail mary one way, hail mary the other way game. He was quite pleased with the outcome.  <\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Edit<\/strong>: The guy in the picture saw it. Hah! Thankfully he has a good sense of humor about it.)<\/p>\n<p>After that, the reception was lovely:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct16\/oct02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The groom was one of The Yankee&#8217;s former students, and we saw some other former students and friends there as well. A fine time, as they say, was had by all. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BLCviItjelM\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">The thing about the garter toss to watch: the guys that don&#39;t try. The thing about the tossing of the bouquet to watch: the little ones.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-02T01:55:25+00:00\">Oct 1, 2016 at 6:55pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are here: It is a chapel on a small college campus in north Georgia. Also, a football game was celebrated on the front lawn, just after the bride and groom drove away. Before that, however: Yes, he was watching football during a wedding. That&#39;s what happens when you book a ceremony in the fall. 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