{"id":790,"date":"2008-07-11T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.themetalden.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2008-07-11T19:04:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:04:22","slug":"<p>Metal News Source: BoxingInsider.Com<\/p><p>The Pantera great shows his RESPECT for the<i> boxing great<\/i> who&nbsp;also happens to LOVE metal!&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"DIMEBAG DARRELL Estate Joins Forces With ROCK AGAINST DIABETES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img HEIGHT=\"140\" WIDTH=\"225\" TITLE=\"Mosh For Jesus!\" ALT=\"Mosh For Jesus!\" SRC=\"http:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c84\/rocketfromvenice\/moshjesus.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: Mike Segar)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img HEIGHT=\"31\" WIDTH=\"300\" TITLE=\"TMD Rocks The Bible Of METAL!\" ALT=\"TMD Rocks The Bible Of METAL!\" SRC=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A music festival with heavy metal, punk, hip-hop and pop music might seem like an unusual place to get baptized, but Creation is a festival with strict rules: no alcohol, no drugs and no sex before marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s like the Christian version of Woodstock, basically, except it&#39;s neat and clean,&quot; said Victor Gibson, 37, from Manheim, Pennsylvania, who brought his wife and five children aged from five to 14 to the four-day festival.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Take a look back at the crowd,&quot; he said, as thousands of fans held their arms in the air, pounding out the beat of a song by Christian band Kutless, whose sound Gibson likened to Metallica. &quot;No rioting, no fighting, nobody getting beat up.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lily Ellerson, a 12-year-old from Maryland, was one of nearly 200 people who were baptized in a pond on the final day of Creation, which drew around 70,000 people in late June.<\/p>\n<p>Ellerson said she decided to be baptized after hearing a speaker at one of the side-events at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I felt God was there,&quot; Ellerson said. &quot;I could just see him, I could feel him all around me, and I thought I wanted to give my full heart to him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ellerson came with a church youth group of 47 people, including her cousin Emily White, who volunteers at the church.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You really do feel like, wow, we are in the Kingdom right now and right here,&quot; White said. &quot;You&#39;re living in a community of 70,000 people, without the benefit of electricity or water, yet everybody loves each other, you don&#39;t hear about things being stolen or fights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Full Story <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSN3025515520080707?sp=true\">HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.creationfest.com\/ne\/\">http:\/\/www.creationfest.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; (Photo Credit: Mike Segar)&nbsp; A music festival with heavy metal, punk, hip-hop and&#8230;<\/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":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-heavy-metal","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}