{"id":475,"date":"2013-01-28T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T17:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=475"},"modified":"2013-01-30T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:28:28","slug":"guayabas-from-eggplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2013\/01\/28\/guayabas-from-eggplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Guavas from Eggplant"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was last September that I got to visit the town of Eggplant-ville.\u00a0 The guavas weren’t ripe yet, but that didn’t stop the kids from picking and eating them.\u00a0 They offered me some and laughed at the expression on my scrunched-up face.<\/p>\n

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I couldn't quite enjoy the very green guavas like the kids did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday a young woman from Eggplant-ville stopped by our house with a huge bag of guavas.\u00a0 When I offered to pay her for them, she said, “I didn’t come to sell.”\u00a0 The heavy bag had been carried for over an hour, uphill, on a donkey and then the last half mile tied to the girl’s back in her shawl.<\/p>\n

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This pile of guavas is only part of the gift we received.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“These are the last guavas for now,” she said.\u00a0 “You won’t taste any more this year.”\u00a0 We sent her home with some flour and beans in exchange for her generosity and praising God for friendships in the surrounding towns.<\/p>\n

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The young woman who brought us guavas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was last September that I got to visit the town of Eggplant-ville.\u00a0 The guavas weren’t ripe yet, but that didn’t stop the kids from picking and eating them.\u00a0 They offered me some and laughed at the expression on my scrunched-up face. Yesterday a young woman from Eggplant-ville stopped by our house with a huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"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":[705],"tags":[416],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-article","7":"tag-village-life","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}