{"id":36,"date":"2008-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-18T05:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:51:22","slug":"home-sweet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/2008\/08\/23\/home-sweet-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Sweet Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/files\/2008\/08\/2229_42905.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/files\/2008\/08\/2229_42905.jpg\" alt=\"Our home\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--EndImportPhoto-->\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Six years ago, just prior to the Lord gripping my heart to become a missionary, I built a home. To me, it was my dream home. However, when the reality of finances hit us, we realized we couldn\u2019t afford it. When you do the math of having a mortgage payment, being a full-time college student, and living off of April\u2019s social worker\u2019s salary, the numbers just didn\u2019t add up. Imagine that! Heartbroken, we put it up for rent.<\/p>\n<p>Our jouney overseas\u00a0as missionaries has provided many opportunities to learn patience and dependence on the Lord. Yet, we have never yet been dissapointed with the Lord\u2019s provisions as they are always better than we could imagine. Knowing we will soon be leaving, we never even let ourselves dream of being in our home. Yet again, God has come through, blowing open doors, to make us living in our own home a reality. Even if just for short while.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy seeing some pictures of our home\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntm.org\/ryan-beck\/photos.php?img_id=42905&amp;category=Home+Sweet+Home\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 yrs of living with family, friends, and in dorm style living, we finally are in our own home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ryan-beck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}