{"id":835,"date":"2011-09-14T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=835"},"modified":"2011-09-14T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:54:39","slug":"when-tied-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2011\/09\/14\/when-tied-together\/","title":{"rendered":"When Tied Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/09\/DSC01232-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen with an Agutaynen man\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/09\/DSC01232-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/09\/DSC01232-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/09\/DSC01232.JPG 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen with an Agutaynen man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As many of you know, Stephen is now back to full-time language study with the desire to see it completed.\u00a0 Progress is not seen in leaps or bounds but by words, phrases, and so on.\u00a0 Some days are hard, very hard.\u00a0 But other days, days when Stephen is able to be out with people, doing what they are doing, language study can actually be enjoyed through communication of desires, needs, struggles, and so on.\u00a0 Just a few days ago, Stephen noticed a large group of Agutaynens working along the road.\u00a0 So, he went to see what they were doing.\u00a0 In short, they were \u201cbeautifying\u201d the village by planting trees and flowers.\u00a0 While there, one Agutaynen lady told Stephen, \u201cPag beket-beket tang mga taw madili tang obra piro mga wasag-wasag maliwag.\u201d\u00a0 She said, \u201cWhen people are tied together, work is fast; but when people scatter, work is hard.\u201d\u00a0 So how can fifty Agutaynens all tied together accomplish a task?\u00a0 They can\u2019t.\u00a0 But this is the way the Agutaynens say \u201cunited\u201d.\u00a0 So, she was saying, \u201cWhen people are united, work is fast.\u201d\u00a0 Times like this, we see that we are learning a beautiful language.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray with us that the Agutaynens will \u201ctie\u201d themselves up with Stephen in his continued language study.\u00a0 Pray as Stephen is looking for new, faithful Agutaynens to be language helpers.\u00a0 And then, Lord willing, this task of language learning will be a \u201cfast\u201d one, as the Agutaynen lady expressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, Stephen is now back to full-time language study with the desire to see it completed.\u00a0 Progress is not seen in leaps or bounds but by words, phrases, and so on.\u00a0 Some days are hard, very hard.\u00a0 But other days, days when Stephen is able to be out with people, doing [&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-835","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\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}