{"id":1242,"date":"2013-01-24T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:34:18","slug":"christmas-2013-and-the-new-year-for-the-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/2013\/01\/24\/christmas-2013-and-the-new-year-for-the-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, 2012 and the New Year for the Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Our lives are almost back to normal. \u00a0We are still adjusting to a very quiet house. \u00a0Heather, Cody and Haley were all here for the holidays. \u00a0Now all three have gone back to school and we are alone with the dogs and cats. \u00a0Maybe an empty nest has its good points, but it was great to have at least three of our children with us for Christmas.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>We missed not having Jason and his family here.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1243\" title=\"DSCN0275\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2014\/01\/DSCN0275.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><span style=\"color: black;\">With the new year comes renewed activities such as AWANA, Ladies Bible Study, ESL classes and a few other things that were put on \u2018hold\u2019 during the holidays.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I, (Jackie), am helping to lead a Bible Study on Mary, a Life of Humility, and attending another one on Walking in Faith. It is exciting to get to know more ladies in our church and to see many grow in their walk with the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lives are almost back to normal. \u00a0We are still adjusting to a very quiet house. \u00a0Heather, Cody and Haley were all here for the holidays. \u00a0Now all three have gone back to school and we are alone with the dogs and cats. \u00a0Maybe an empty nest has its good points, but it was great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"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":[6864,3416,3,3413,3415,99912,3414,99911],"tags":[1033,721,32604,32603,32605],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-church-ministry","category-cody-family","category-family","category-haley-family","category-heather-family","category-jackie","category-jason-and-family","category-phil","tag-awana","tag-christmas","tag-esl-classes","tag-ladies-bible-study","tag-sunday-school","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}