{"id":481,"date":"2012-08-13T01:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T01:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-08-13T01:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T01:27:40","slug":"visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day!<\/p>\n<p>Being a visitor in a new church is always a daunting experience. \u00a0All these people look at you from the corner of their eye saying, &#8220;Do we say hello to the new person or pretend that we did not notice them?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, on our trip to Iowa, we visited our old church where we attended in the early 1990&#8217;s. \u00a0You do not think that you have changed all that much. \u00a0You think that you look just like you! \u00a0It is them who have changed and you think to yourself, &#8220;Where did all these new people come from&#8221; and, &#8220;&#8221;Wow! \u00a0Who is that tall guy?&#8221;, only to find out you had taught him in your first grade Sunday School class. \u00a0So, being a visitor in our old church was a strange experience.<\/p>\n<p>We met many old friends, caught up on new things in each other lives and for a brief moment tried to forget the years that have passed. \u00a0So, it was almost like old times. \u00a0It was a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day! Being a visitor in a new church is always a daunting experience. \u00a0All these people look at you from the corner of their eye saying, &#8220;Do we say hello to the new person or pretend that we did not notice them?&#8221;. Recently, on our trip to Iowa, we visited our old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}