{"id":20,"date":"2019-04-25T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/drsp\/stories\/letter-from-mike-on-death-row-in-ohio\/"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:45:15","slug":"letter-from-mike-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/stories\/letter-from-mike-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Mike on death row in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Rachel,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting here thinking of you.  I still don&#8217;t have a pen-friend so I thought I&#8217;d write you.  I just need someone to talk with.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s everything going for you by now?  I pray that this letter will arrive to discover you well and in good spirit.  As for myself, I&#8217;m Blessed.  My Mom told me that her preacher told them if someone asks you how you are, you shouldn&#8217;t say well, if you&#8217;re not.  It&#8217;s best to just say you&#8217;re Blessed.  So in the light of that, I&#8217;m truly Blessed and pray you are as well.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know that we moved here [Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Ohio] 12-06-11 and it&#8217;s been almost two years.  This place isn&#8217;t that bad (to be on death row).  The only thing I don&#8217;t like is the cell door is made out of heavy wire and does nothing to block out the noise.  It gets really loud in here.<\/p>\n<p>I do like having a window I can open or shut when I want.  There&#8217;s a tree right outside of the window.  I really enjoy feeding and watching the birds.  I really like being able to feed the birds.  I liked feeding the birds I did when I was out there.  Most time if you put up a bird feeder, it won&#8217;t be long before the squirrels come along.  They are really fun to watch as well.  I don&#8217;t care what you do, they&#8217;ll find a way to get to that seed.  The only way to stop them is to put a steel post out in the middle of a field and the pole has an upside down funnel.  That&#8217;s the only way.  I had a feeder like that but a power line went over it and a squirrel would go out that power line and drop straight down.  I looked out then and seen it and I just couldn&#8217;t figure it out.  How did he get up there?  Then I saw him do it.  They&#8217;ll figure out a way if possible.  I would move the food around in this tree so I could watch them figure it out.  It was fun watching them.<\/p>\n<p>We also have cats here.  I enjoy feeding them as well.  This is the first time in ten years I&#8217;ve had a window and able to feed the animals.  I do enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess I&#8217;ll let you go for now.  I just wanted someone to write and share things with.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless, Take Care and Best Wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Truly,<br \/>\n<strong>Mike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Have a nice day.  I pray you find me a pen-friend soon.  Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Rachel, I&#8217;ve been sitting here thinking of you. I still don&#8217;t have a pen-friend so I thought I&#8217;d write you. I just need someone to talk with. How&#8217;s everything going for you by now? I pray that this letter will arrive to discover you well and in good spirit. As for myself, I&#8217;m Blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/28"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/drsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}