{"id":14,"date":"2010-07-21T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paytonandgrace.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-07-21T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:38:00","slug":"a-few-summer-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/2010\/07\/21\/a-few-summer-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A few summer things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wFhJN28WjAE\/TEcoY0ZviyI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/zksBycyRMl0\/s1600\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496406277077568290\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 10px 10px 0;cursor: hand;width: 133px;height: 200px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wFhJN28WjAE\/TEcoY0ZviyI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/zksBycyRMl0\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Please don&#8217;t be offended by the picture before you read the post!)<br \/>\nSo, studying Hebrew has it&#8217;s benefits besides just the beauty of the language itself and the deeper understanding of the Jewish culture. People are always coming up to me and wondering what I&#8217;m studying&#8211;it probably looks like I&#8217;m making up my own alien language, complete with doodads and squiggles (cursive form of Hebrew is pretty silly). Yesterday&#8217;s was my favorite.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Random guy: What are you studying?<\/div>\n<div>Me: Hebrew.<\/div>\n<div>Random guy: For school&#8230;or&#8230;is it a part of your heritage?<\/div>\n<div>Me: Mostly for spiritual purposes&#8211;I read my Bible every day and hope to understand it better&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>Random guy: Did you know I&#8217;m reading a book about Jesus?! It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Yoga of Jesus&#8221;!<\/div>\n<div>Me: Huh?<\/div>\n<div>Random guy: Yeah, you know that Jesus disappeared from age 18-30. Do you know what he was doing?! He was in the far east studying yoga and energy!<\/div>\n<div>Me: Well, I don&#8217;t know about that&#8211;<\/div>\n<div>Random guy:&#8211;oh, he was! He was one really centered guy!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then he left.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, I&#8217;ve had some amazing opportunities to share the gospel with people and such, but that was just strange.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Payton and I had the opportunity to hand out tracts with friends from church right before a parade. That was an exciting opportunity to just proclaim truth. Praise God for that!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We also &#8220;pre-packed&#8221; the car to see if our possessions would fit&#8230;it&#8217;s Payton&#8217;s desire to be &#8220;mobile&#8221;. So, with the exception of our books, we had to fit everything in the car. I was quite worried about this. But, after stacking the 8 attached lid containers on top of the car along with two fold up bucket chairs and a cargo bag, and putting everything else in car, I realized that it fit!!! And with room to spare! We might even be able to take a cooler and not put it in my lap!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pray for us as we finish up before we leave in August. So much to do!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please don&#8217;t be offended by the picture before you read the post!) So, studying Hebrew has it&#8217;s benefits besides just the beauty of the language itself and the deeper understanding of the Jewish culture. People are always coming up to me and wondering what I&#8217;m studying&#8211;it probably looks like I&#8217;m making up my own alien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"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":[71321],"tags":[71777,72074,495],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-summertime","7":"tag-conversations","8":"tag-manitou-springs","9":"tag-packing","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}