{"id":859,"date":"2013-06-12T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:18:00","slug":"5-heroes-of-your-christian-childhood-whit-being-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/5-heroes-of-your-christian-childhood-whit-being-one-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Heroes of Your Christian Childhood, Whit Being One of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5_Christian_Heroes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-860\" alt=\"Christian Heroes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5_Christian_Heroes-400x184.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5_Christian_Heroes-400x184.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5_Christian_Heroes-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/5_Christian_Heroes.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In short, if this guy wasn&#8217;t one of your childhood heroes, you did not have a happy childhood.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty strong statement from Relevant Magazine&#8217;s editor, Tyler Huckabee, in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/culture\/film\/5-heroes-your-christian-childhood\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> at the Relevant Magazine website.<\/p>\n<p>The featured article serves as a &#8220;tribute to your animated and anthropomorphic mentors&#8221; and discusses &#8220;5 Heroes of Your Christian Childhood&#8221;, with John Avery Whittaker as one of the top 5. Evidently,\u00a0<em>Adventures in Odyssey<\/em> has made a large impact in the Christian entertainment since its inception in 1987. Four other heroes are discussed in the article, but I&#8217;m sure any\u00a0<em>Adventures in Odyssey\u00a0<\/em>fan would agree that Whit would surface as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we at The Odyssey Scoop would echo that John Avery Whittaker was perhaps the top influence in the world of Christian entertainment (and still is!).\u00a0<em>Adventures in Odyssey&#8217;s<\/em> footprint continues to spread, with more people discovering AIO every day.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/culture\/film\/5-heroes-your-christian-childhood\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Relevant Magazine (in their own words):<\/strong><br \/>\nSince 2002,\u00a0<em>RELEVANT<\/em>\u00a0has been the leading platform reaching Christian twenty- and thirtysomethings. Covering faith, culture and intentional living, the stories we tell are at the intersection of where a Christ-centered life is really lived. Our magazine is not about &#8220;being relevant&#8221; (whatever that means)\u2014it&#8217;s that God is relevant to every aspect of our lives. (And yes, we cover the stuff that&#8217;s relevant to our readers.) We reach about 2,300,000 twenty- and thirtysomething Christians a month through all of our platforms, publishing every other month in print and iPad, as well as daily online, occasionally on RTV and weekly via our podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In short, if this guy wasn&#8217;t one of your childhood heroes, you did not have a happy childhood.&#8221; That&#8217;s a pretty strong statement from Relevant Magazine&#8217;s editor, Tyler Huckabee, in a recent article at the Relevant Magazine website. The featured article serves as a &#8220;tribute to your animated and anthropomorphic mentors&#8221; and discusses &#8220;5 Heroes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-relevant-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AIO_logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2kCCw-dR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}