{"id":25,"date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-05T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T17:43:46","slug":"greet-one-another-with-a-holy-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2008\/06\/05\/greet-one-another-with-a-holy-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Greet one another with a holy kiss!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2008\/06\/2329_39246.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2008\/06\/2329_39246.jpg\" alt=\"Faire la bise!\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Romans 16:16 says that we should &quot;greet one another with a holy kiss&quot;!&nbsp; I am reminded of this verse every time I greet one of my French friends.&nbsp; It is appropriate to affectionately greet your friends and Christian brothers and sisters with what they call, &quot;faire la bise&quot;.&nbsp; Literally it means to make the kiss.&nbsp; We do not actually kiss one another but touch cheek to cheek and kiss the air.&nbsp; First on one side and then the other.&nbsp; It is awkward for some foreigners to get used to it but I actually like it.&nbsp; It is a way of letting someone I know that I love and respect them, that I am happy to see them and also a way to wish them well when I say good-bye.&nbsp; It was comical especially at church in the first few months of being in France.&nbsp; Can you imagine about five minutes of kissing everyone when you arrive at church and about five minutes of kissing everyone as you leave?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consider yourself kissed!&nbsp; I love and appreciate you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faire la bise! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}