{"id":16,"date":"2008-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-10T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T23:46:45","slug":"welcome-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/2008\/06\/10\/welcome-to-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to California!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2008\/06\/2389_39567.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2008\/06\/2389_39567.jpg\" alt=\"Friends Dick &#038; Marilyn Herr provided a &quot;Welcome to the Beach&quot; and also a warm welcome to California.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Hanging on the front porch of long time friends and mentors Dick &amp; Marilyn Herr was this flag that reads &quot;Welcome to the Beach.&quot;&nbsp; As great as it was to spend a bit of time on the beach in southern California, nothing was as great as the &quot;Welcome to California&quot; we recieved from many friends in the area.<\/p>\n<p>During the bulk of our stay in California, we were blessed to have <strong>Dick &amp; Marilyn Herr<\/strong> as our hosts.&nbsp; In fact, when we first arrived, Dick &amp; Marilyn were still on vacation themselves and so we had the privilege of&nbsp;<!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2008\/06\/2389_39568.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2008\/06\/2389_39568.jpg\" alt=\"Our hosts in California were Dick and Marilyn Herr.  They celebrated their 49th Wedding Anniversary while we were there.  CONGRATULATIONS!!\" width=\"150\" title=\"Our hosts in California were Dick and Marilyn Herr.  They celebrated their 49th Wedding Anniversary while we were there.  CONGRATULATIONS!!\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail--> house sitting for a couple of days.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was&nbsp;also Dick I was speaking to as we were travelling &quot;Somewhere in the Middle of Kansas&quot; (see previous article).&nbsp; Durning our stay we were blessed to see them&nbsp;celebrate on June 5th their <strong><u>49th Wedding Anniversary<\/u><\/strong>.&nbsp; Their friendship and hospitality is just one example of the many ways we have been blessed, not just on this most recent trip, but also on previous trips to California.<\/p>\n<p>To our friends Mike &amp; Edwina, Harvey &amp; Jane, sisters Evylnn &amp; Maribel, Rosemond, Dale &amp; Sue, Bert &amp; Naomi, and anyone else that has made this trip and previous trips special, <u>THANK-YOU<\/u>!!&nbsp; We have been truly blessed and pray great blessings on all of you, our friends in southern&nbsp;California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As great as it was to spend a bit of time on the beach in southern California, nothing was as great as the &#8220;Welcome to California&#8221; we recieved from many friends in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}