{"id":523,"date":"2013-09-05T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=523"},"modified":"2013-09-05T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:30:02","slug":"you-know-youre-a-missionary-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2013\/09\/05\/you-know-youre-a-missionary-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you&#8217;re a missionary when . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know you\u2019re a missionary when the following dialogue comes up in an evening conversation and you think nothing of it: Missionary 1: \u201cDo you know of the store Wimbly?\u201d Missionary 2: \u201cMaybe.  What country is it in?\u201d Missionary 1: \u201cSouth Africa.\u201d Missionary 3: \u201cAhh, that\u2019s right.  I knew that I had seen a lot of them somewhere but I couldn\u2019t remember if it was in South Africa or Australia.\u201d Ok, so that\u2019s not word for word, but you get the point.  And that conversation came after a quite engaging conversation with other friends about languages spoken in various countries as well as about cultures and languages and how to thrive as you move between different countries and continents.  It\u2019s actually kind of fun to be able to carry on conversations about ice cream shops in Senegal and then switch to which bus lines break down most on cross-country trips through Tanzania after having also talked about different towns in Oregon, USA.  And somehow, for me, it\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work.  I think I love my job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you\u2019re a missionary when the following dialogue comes up in an evening conversation and you think nothing of it: Missionary 1: \u201cDo you know of the store Wimbly?\u201d Missionary 2: \u201cMaybe. What country is it in?\u201d Missionary 1: \u201cSouth Africa.\u201d Missionary 3: \u201cAhh, that\u2019s right. I knew that I had seen a lot [&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":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}