{"id":461,"date":"2010-10-21T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-10-21T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:32:42","slug":"question-2-is-your-house-still-standing-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2010\/10\/21\/question-2-is-your-house-still-standing-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Question #2: Is your house still standing in the Philippines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2010\/10\/asiasat_440x297.jpg\" alt=\"Typhoon Megi leaving the Philippines\" width=\"223\" height=\"212\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typhoon Megi leaving the Philippines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several people have asked us this week if Typhoon Megi caused any damage to our home in the Philippines.\u00a0 The short answer is \u201cno\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0Every year, 25-30 typhoons will go through the Philippines.\u00a0 Usually these typhoons will hit the Visayas or Luzon. \u00a0In other words, typhoons hit central to northern Philippines, not our island directly.\u00a0 Since we live in the southwestern corner of the Philippines, we usually just get the perimeter affects of the storm, which would be 2-3 days of rain and nice breezes.\u00a0 When people hear the word \u201ctyphoon\u201d they usually then ask: what is a typhoon?\u00a0 A typhoon is basically an Asian word for hurricane which brings high winds and often flooding.\u00a0 As many of you may have seen on TV or the internet, Typhoon Megi did bring some deaths and destruction to the areas hit by the center of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Even though we are not usually affected by typhoons in our area of the Philippines, it is always a good reminder for you to pray.\u00a0 So the next time you hear of a typhoon in the Philippines, please pray for the Agutaynens and the missionaries working among them.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked us this week if Typhoon Megi caused any damage to our home in the Philippines.\u00a0 The short answer is \u201cno\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0Every year, 25-30 typhoons will go through the Philippines.\u00a0 Usually these typhoons will hit the Visayas or Luzon. \u00a0In other words, typhoons hit central to northern Philippines, not our island directly.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}