{"id":2004,"date":"2013-03-17T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2013-03-17T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:52:12","slug":"firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2013\/03\/17\/firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Name Sake<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our Friend Mary named her baby after me (which is a common practice here), but still flattering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Andrea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First Week of School<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With Katie gone, Tyler had his first week at school with Ethan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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He loves it, which is a huge answer to prayer for me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First Party for the Women of our Church<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We all gathered together to pray, study God's word and fellowship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And of course eat \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First Big Disappointment<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week ended with some hard news for us. \u00a0We rounded a corner in our French study and thought we were close to the end, but really we are far from it. \u00a0It was extremely discouraging and part of me wanted to give up. \u00a0We took the weekend to calm down, process and rework our language plan. \u00a0We pick up on Monday and are trying to muster the energy required to get us both over the last part of the climb. \u00a0We are tired and weary of language study, but we press on toward the goal before us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Name Sake First Week of School First Party for the Women of our Church First Big Disappointment This week ended with some hard news for us. \u00a0We rounded a corner in our French study and thought we were close to the end, but really we are far from it. \u00a0It was extremely discouraging and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"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":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-updates-and-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}