{"id":77,"date":"2010-07-12T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-09-11T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:17:28","slug":"this-little-piggy-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/2010\/07\/12\/this-little-piggy-went\/","title":{"rendered":"This little piggy went&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/files\/2010\/07\/VA-Hog-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Any animal you can feed an apple to and it makes bacon is AWESOME!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/files\/2010\/07\/VA-Hog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/files\/2010\/07\/VA-Hog.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Any animal you can feed an apple to and it makes bacon is AWESOME!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;<em>FAST! <\/em><strong>Thanks SO MUCH <\/strong>to Jim &amp; Martha Ritchie for hosting what was almost 200 people at our Pig Pickin&#8217; this past Saturday! \u00a0SO MUCH FUN! \u00a0With an early start to the day, my hubby and Scott left around 5AM with the pig to begin the big roasting festivities. \u00a0Tom Rogers and others pitched in their help as the day went on. \u00a0Thunder showers and some crazy downpours were taking place everywhere in the area&#8230;.EXCEPT at the Ritchie&#8217;s house! \u00a0PTL! \u00a0As people slowly started trickling in around 4:45pm, the tables started filling with amazing side dishes and desserts! \u00a0We all stuffed ourselves and talked for hours! \u00a0The kids had endless fun petting the horses, playing on the trampoline and in the treehouses \/ forts. \u00a0Some of the guys played Corn Hole for hours, and we smiled as we looked around at such a big group of encouraging brothers and sisters in Christ! We LOVE this new tradition of Pig Roasts, and hope to continue it on as we head out to Arizona. We&#8217;ll be enjoying our last week here in Norfolk, VA, and then we&#8217;ll take several days visiting friends along the way back to Missouri. \u00a0We officially &#8220;pack up the truck&#8221; and head out on August 2nd for Arizona, and will arrive at our first official &#8220;post&#8221; on August 4th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;FAST! Thanks SO MUCH to Jim &amp; Martha Ritchie for hosting what was almost 200 people at our Pig Pickin&#8217; this past Saturday! \u00a0SO MUCH FUN! \u00a0With an early start to the day, my hubby and Scott left around 5AM with the pig to begin the big roasting festivities. \u00a0Tom Rogers and others pitched in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-simmons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}