{"id":287,"date":"2010-06-20T18:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:19:11","slug":"fresh-chicken-with-the-fam-in-oussouye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2010\/06\/20\/fresh-chicken-with-the-fam-in-oussouye\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Chicken with the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles and I recently had the chance to spend a little time with family in his home village.\u00a0 It was nice to see everyone again, now as a married couple.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to cook a chicken dinner with my sisters-in-law.\u00a0 Did I mention that I have 5 sisters now!\u00a0 Chickens go from the yard to the dinner table in an hour or so and we cleaned them t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2010\/06\/20\/fresh-chicken-with-the-fam-in-oussouye\/my-pictures-071\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/files\/2010\/06\/my-pictures-071-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"my pictures 071\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>ogether.\u00a0 Normally, the kids catch the chicken first.\u00a0 Second, thankfully, a man in the family cuts the throat.\u00a0 Third, you dip it in boiling water before plucking out the feathers.\u00a0 Then, well you can imagine the rest.\u00a0 I am beginning to prefer fresh chicken to the packaged hormone-injected version in the states.\u00a0 We also had a great time with our church family,\u00a0 the people who taught Charles during his early Christian life.\u00a0 We participated in a training session with them where we discussed how to teach Bible lessons. \u00a0It is beautiful here.\u00a0 This time of year it is always entertaining to sit outside and watch all the animals running about.\u00a0 They let them graze freely until time to plant the rice again, in July.\u00a0 I never knew pigs liked to run so much!\u00a0 And the cows thought that the roads were put there for them! They have no fear of cars. We also had some serious discussions about God since many in our family are not believers.\u00a0 Please pray that the Holy Spirit will help them understand the truth of the Gospel and that we will be faithful witnesses for our Lord. We love them very much and long to share our lives together as believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles and I recently had the chance to spend a little time with family in his home village.\u00a0 It was nice to see everyone again, now as a married couple.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to cook a chicken dinner with my sisters-in-law.\u00a0 Did I mention that I have 5 sisters now!\u00a0 Chickens go from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}