{"id":1971,"date":"2025-02-21T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2025-02-16T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:39:12","slug":"kids-say-the-darndest-things-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2025\/02\/21\/kids-say-the-darndest-things-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids say the Darndest Things (Or Not!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Life here is many things, but &#8220;dull&#8221; is not usually one of them.  Sometimes I hear interesting things, which would be funny if they were coming from the lips of kids who didn&#8217;t know what they were talking about.  Sadly, though, they&#8217;ve all come from adults, and show the real thoughts and fears of their hearts.  (When they told me these things, they didn&#8217;t think that they were saying anything out of the ordinary and had no idea that these were shocking to me.)  The fact that they honestly believe these makes them not &#8220;darndest,&#8221; but rather reminders to pray for these people living in darkness.  May a great light shine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been feeling my heartbeat in my foot since yesterday.  Is that a problem?  When I first felt it I really freaked out, since I wasn&#8217;t sure what it was, and was wondering if it could be that my soul was wanting to leave my body through my foot.  I&#8217;m still wondering if that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What day did she die on?  A Monday?  Oh, that&#8217;s good.  &#8216;Cuz you know that people can be reincarnated, but if they die on Wednesday it&#8217;s the end and there is no reincarnation possible for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To make this food, you have to do the first step the evening before and then leave it out overnight.  But as you leave it out, put a piece of charcoal and a whole pepper on it, since corpses really like to eat it and that will keep them away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life here is many things, but &#8220;dull&#8221; is not usually one of them. Sometimes I hear interesting things, which would be funny if they were coming from the lips of kids who didn&#8217;t know what they were talking about. Sadly, though, they&#8217;ve all come from adults, and show the real thoughts and fears of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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-1971","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\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}