{"id":2879,"date":"2014-01-10T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-01-10T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:28:26","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2014\/01\/10\/butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with all the adventures we have had, I still get nervous when we face the next. \u00a0Not nervous about whether we will make it through, but what it will require to make it to the other side. \u00a0Butterflies still mount as I prepare to leave. \u00a0A night in the village with our host family, which will be a first for me. \u00a0So many questions that run through my head:<\/p>\n<p>Where will I sleep? \u00a0Will I even sleep? \u00a0What will I end up having to eat and not to mention drink? \u00a0Will the dancing go late into the night? \u00a0When will the end be in sight?\u00a0 What type challenges will the preparation work hold?\u00a0 Will I know correctly what is my role?<\/p>\n<p>The questions are still there and can go round and round.\u00a0 Only now I know that as much as I search, no answer can be found.\u00a0 So in case you doubt or think we are above the nerves.\u00a0 I thought I would write before a big event to show that we are no different from the rest.\u00a0 The first time is always the worst as we often have no idea what to expect, but stumbling through the first door teaches how to walk through the next.\u00a0 One thing we have learned is that no matter what the adventure holds, our God is big enough to carry us through the waves of the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with all the adventures we have had, I still get nervous when we face the next. \u00a0Not nervous about whether we will make it through, but what it will require to make it to the other side. \u00a0Butterflies still mount as I prepare to leave. \u00a0A night in the village with our host family, [&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":{"0":"post-2879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}