{"id":972,"date":"2011-11-09T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/?p=972"},"modified":"2011-11-09T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:34:18","slug":"first-day-of-soccer-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2011\/11\/09\/first-day-of-soccer-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST DAY OF SOCCER PRACTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-973\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/11\/Soccer-Team-collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-973\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/11\/Soccer-Team-collage-300x214.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/11\/Soccer-Team-collage-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/11\/Soccer-Team-collage.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As some of you who receive our monthly(ish) email newsletter already know, I (Phil) have taken on coaching a local soccer team. Please pray for a miracle, namely that they will be able to learn some basic soccer skills from someone who doesn&#8217;t possess them himself. At the very least we are trying to move beyond the predominant technique known worldwide as &#8220;boot the ball as hard as you can and then chase it for all your worth&#8221;. Our first weekly practice was held early this morning and seemed (from my perspective) to go very well.<\/p>\n<p>Pray that the Lord will use this as an opportunity to build relationships with the players.<\/p>\n<p>[P.S. If you want to receive our monthly email newsletter select the &#8220;Contact&#8221; option above and let us know.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you who receive our monthly(ish) email newsletter already know, I (Phil) have taken on coaching a local soccer team. Please pray for a miracle, namely that they will be able to learn some basic soccer skills from someone who doesn&#8217;t possess them himself. At the very least we are trying to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}