{"id":4197,"date":"2024-12-08T16:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:55:50","slug":"tree-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/2024\/12\/08\/tree-of-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of Memories …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As I wandered through the halls of the BI and saw several beautiful Christmas trees in various locations, I was mindful of our first Christmas tree in Paraguay, in 1979.\u00a0 I was so homesick, that I did not even want to think about Christmas, let alone celebrate it! But, just a few days before that December 25th date, in 1979, I changed my mind.<\/p>\n

Although, not having much hope of finding a tree, we started out on our mission.\u00a0 With sweat running down our legs into our flip-flops and checking out all the little stores in our river town, we finally found one!<\/p>\n

Needless to say, it was a bit disappointing, but over the years we have faithfully put up that same tree … for us … for our kids … for students and friends … and now for us again!\u00a0 It has become pretty pitiful looking but now it holds so many memories that I do not even consider a different one! So, from our home to yours – Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him.”\u00a0 (Romans 15:13 NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I wandered through the halls of the BI and saw several beautiful Christmas trees in various locations, I was mindful of our first Christmas tree in Paraguay, in 1979.\u00a0 I was so homesick, that I did not even want to think about Christmas, let alone celebrate it! But, just a few days before that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"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":[3,1034],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-personal","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}