{"id":1811,"date":"2017-02-02T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2017-02-02T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:20:01","slug":"living-in-a-glass-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2017\/02\/02\/living-in-a-glass-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Glass Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Luke's
Luke’s Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever felt like a goldfish?\u00a0 Have you ever had the feeling that someone was watching you?<\/p>\n

Our son Luke has a fish jar by his desk.\u00a0 He only has one fish and he enjoys watching it swim around.\u00a0 No matter where the fish goes, he can\u2019t hide from Luke\u2019s sight.<\/p>\n

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\"Boy's
Boy’s watching whatever we are doing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do you ever feel like this fish?\u00a0 We often do, especially on Saturdays, Sundays and school vacations.\u00a0 Our house is like a magnet for kids of every age.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well maybe because our yard is the village playground.\u00a0 In our yard, kids can play basketball, volleyball, badminton, play on a tire swing or on the \u201cninja warrior course\u201d Luke built.\u00a0 For the village kids, our yard is like Disneyland.\u00a0 Do we mind?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 We designed our yard for the joy of our own kids, knowing it would attract the village kids.\u00a0 Often you will see Jonathan pushing a village kid on the swing or Luke officiating a group of kids through the ninja warrior course or Abigail and Rebekah hitting a beach ball with the smaller kids of the village.\u00a0 With the kids outside playing, it is often difficult for Stephen to work.\u00a0 So what does he do?\u00a0 He joins them for a game of volleyball.\u00a0 It is the weekend, after all.\u00a0 Time to play!<\/p>\n

\"Kids
Kids playing six-square in our yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All in all, we are thankful that the village kids want to come and play.\u00a0 They don\u2019t fear us as kids once did many years ago.\u00a0 However, at times we do feel like a goldfish.\u00a0 When the village kids want to take a break from playing, they look in our windows to see what is happening inside the house.\u00a0 Whether it is Ginger making dinner or writing letters, village kids are watching us.\u00a0 Whether we are having family devos or washing dishes, kids are watching us.\u00a0 And guess what we feel like?\u00a0 A goldfish.\u00a0 It really isn\u2019t that bad, but as Americans, we do enjoy a little privacy and time alone as a family.\u00a0 Thankfully, the sun goes down over the horizon about 6pm and all the kids go home.\u00a0 And tomorrow, we do it all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever felt like a goldfish?\u00a0 Have you ever had the feeling that someone was watching you? Our son Luke has a fish jar by his desk.\u00a0 He only has one fish and he enjoys watching it swim around.\u00a0 No matter where the fish goes, he can\u2019t hide from Luke\u2019s sight.   Do you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"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":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-1811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}