{"id":215,"date":"2013-08-06T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-08-06T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T00:36:00","slug":"i-want-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/2013\/08\/06\/i-want-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some days as I walk through the door of my home with all its modern conveniences, I feel a disconnect. The contrast between my current life and my former life is so great that the one at times seems to begin to fade away. And yet I do not want that part of my life to fade away. I want to remember. I want to continue to have my goals, my desires, and my mindset tempered by a life far different from the one I now lead.<\/p>\n

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I want to remember that I lived in a remote jungle village in a rustic mud and pole hut with a palm roof\u2014and that I shared it with creatures that\u00a0 I oftentimes wished God hadn\u2019t bothered to create. I\u2019m sure snakes, spiders and scorpions had a far better reputation before the fall of mankind.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I want to remember that one outhouse is enough for a crowd. Who would spend more than the absolute time necessary in a palm-walled outhouse shared with spiders?<\/p>\n

I want to remember that the closest thing to air-conditioning was a dip in the river—and that you really can live without refrigeration, without a microwave, without a hair dryer and internet.<\/p>\n

I want to remember that one can live without all the trappings of American society and still live a full and wonderful life.\u00a0I don’t want to ever forget that it\u2019s not about what we have, but about who we serve.\u00a0It\u2019s not about what we\u2019ve acquired in life, but about a relationship with the God of the Universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some days as I walk through the door of my home with all its modern conveniences, I feel a disconnect. The contrast between my current life and my former life is so great that the one at times seems to begin to fade away. And yet I do not want that part of my life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}