{"id":183,"date":"2009-11-13T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-12-23T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:09:45","slug":"fuel-frustration-and-felicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Fuel, Frustration, and Felicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[singlepic id=14 w=320 h=240 float=]Finally, after much prayer and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">im<\/span>patience, our fuel order arrived.\u00a0 Thank you Lord.\u00a0 We quickly stored each red barrel.\u00a0 As you can see, no heavy equipment here&#8211;just push it off the back of the truck (yikes!)\u00a0 Although the barrels get &#8220;beat up&#8221;, we are thankful none of them broke.\u00a0 I guess you could say we now have gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are other red items besides barrels.\u00a0 How about &#8220;red tape.&#8221;\u00a0 The continuing saga of my mechanic and pilots license seems to elicit extreme frustration.\u00a0 Although the forms have been turned in and all written tests taken for my mechanic and pilot tests, we still have not seen the progress we were hoping for.\u00a0 Apparently, the flight department in the capital city has &#8220;lost&#8221; my written pilot tests.\u00a0 After much talking, the only solution seems to be to take another trip to the capital city to take them again.\u00a0 We are at our wits end because a trip like this is just way out of budget, especially with our visa renewals coming due next month.\u00a0 Yet, if I dont go and take them again, it could be months before a flight test is scheduled and I actually have my pilots license.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally, we did receive news that the mechanic tests have been passed and are currently being processed.\u00a0 I need to have my mechanics license in hand before the end of the year.\u00a0 Please pray for quick processing again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Note, if you haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; Jodie has made a complete recovery)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=14 w=320 h=240 float=]Finally, after much prayer and impatience, our fuel order arrived.\u00a0 Thank you Lord.\u00a0 We quickly stored each red barrel.\u00a0 As you can see, no heavy equipment here&#8211;just push it off the back of the truck (yikes!)\u00a0 Although the barrels get &#8220;beat up&#8221;, we are thankful none of them broke.\u00a0 I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"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":[3792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-article","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}