{"id":283,"date":"2011-10-08T07:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-10-08T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:43:48","slug":"lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2011\/10\/08\/lesson-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2011\/10\/market.jpg\" alt=\"Our Saturday Market\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Saturday Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We live in apartment in the middle of town. \u00a0The closest Missionary lives at least a 10 minute walk away. \u00a0No one has lived where we are so we have to figure out things about our location on our own. \u00a0We have received some help from people around here to located some stores and markets, but we are really on our own. \u00a0This has made us step outside of our comfortable box and just try new things. \u00a0Sometimes these things go well and sometimes they are an adventure. \u00a0Last night was the adventure type.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we have realized about where we live is that every Saturday there is a huge used clothing market down the main street outside our house. We learned this our first weekend as we heard the hammering outside our window around 10PM on Friday when they were setting the booths up. \u00a0Saturday morning our street is jam packed with people who are rummaging through the markets and buying clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u00a0afternoon we headed to NTM head quarters for a farewell dinner for some missionaries who are leaving on an 8 month road trip. \u00a0It was getting late and we decided to head home and put the boys to bed. \u00a0We decided to take a taxi since it was late and the bus goes a lot slower. \u00a0The taxi was furiously driving through side streets trying to get to our house. \u00a0Well we discovered that it is near impossible to get to our house on a Friday evening without being in traffic for hours. \u00a0We finally decided that we would just walk. \u00a0It was 105\u00a0degrees. \u00a0Both boys were held in our arms close to asleep. \u00a0I have never been so happy to see our little apartment in my life. \u00a0We will have to think very carefully about what we go out for on Friday and Saturday night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in apartment in the middle of town. \u00a0The closest Missionary lives at least a 10 minute walk away. \u00a0No one has lived where we are so we have to figure out things about our location on our own. \u00a0We have received some help from people around here to located some stores and markets, [&hellip;]<\/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-283","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\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}