{"id":27,"date":"2005-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-12T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T01:32:12","slug":"week-end-with-kankanaey-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/2005\/09\/01\/week-end-with-kankanaey-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Week-end with Kankanaey friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2005\/09\/1274_20178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2005\/09\/1274_20178.jpg\" alt=\"Catching up with friends\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>The sun rose slowly over the mountains in the east, spilling its rays upon the beautiful rice fields.&nbsp; Rocky&#8217;s eyes were taking in the familiar details, the trails that lead to our friend&#8217;s homes, the Igorot language rolling off tongues, the smell of mountain rice cooking and home grown coffee brewing.<\/p>\n<p>The believers in the village where we had lived for many years, were hosting a mini conference this past week-end and asked Rocky to come in and share from the Word.&nbsp; He was accompanied by our former coworker the last 9 hours on the bus ride into the village.&nbsp; It gave them lots of time to reminisce over the past and talk about the future of the work among the Kankanaey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Rocky, the week-end was filled with mixed emotions.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the one hand, it was exciting to spend the week-end with the believers there, seeing their continued growth and meeting a few new believers.&nbsp; On the other hand, there was his awareness of the need to continue to spread out as there are still many thousand Kankanaey who have not yet heard God&#8217;s wonderful news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky was enjoying the familiar details of life &#8211; the smell of mountain rice cooking and home grown coffee brewing.  <\/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":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}