{"id":164,"date":"2010-08-10T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-08-10T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T22:04:00","slug":"i-once-was-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/2010\/08\/10\/i-once-was-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I once was blind&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/files\/2009\/08\/SD-Portrait-2-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"S&amp;D Portrait 2\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/files\/2009\/08\/SD-Portrait-2-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/files\/2009\/08\/SD-Portrait-2-914x1024.jpg 914w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/files\/2009\/08\/SD-Portrait-2.jpg 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/>It is with joy that both Steve and Donell can say \u201cI once was blind (more or less) but now I see\u201d thanks to Lasik surgery.\u00a0 The two of us underwent this procedure so that we can see better in our ministries in PNG.\u00a0 Steve can now see up close without glasses to do his aircraft inspections whereas before he was not able to focus clearly on his work (and for an aircraft mechanic that\u2019s not good). Donell no longer has to ship to PNG cases of eye solution and buy boxes of contact lenses for the years we are overseas.\u00a0 A big \u201cThank You\u201d to the supporting churches and individuals who gave specifically for this need and for the many prayers given on our behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with joy that both Steve and Donell can say \u201cI once was blind (more or less) but now I see\u201d thanks to Lasik surgery.\u00a0 The two of us underwent this procedure so that we can see better in our ministries in PNG.\u00a0 Steve can now see up close without glasses to do his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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-164","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\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/steve-trostrud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}