{"id":16,"date":"2008-12-28T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-12-28T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T19:45:04","slug":"home-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Home for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been quite a few days since I got back to Dyeland.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had more than a few minutes at a time to myself.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t minded it.\u00a0 I missed everyone so much.\u00a0 But I think now I&#8217;ve more than made up for the days I was away!\u00a0 Since I missed caroling we had some karaoke at the Cafe last night.\u00a0 It was awfully funny.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll soon forget our group rendition of &#8220;I Want to Know What Love Is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning I&#8217;m leaving for an assignment again.\u00a0 I think everyone feels a lot better about my going to Missouri, though, than they did Iraq.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to be a staff psychologist at a hospice.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure of much more than that but the Father says I&#8217;ll be there for a few weeks.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not too worried about leaving here, though, because He also said I&#8217;d be able to stop in often during those weeks.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thankful to Him for giving me the time in Dyeland He does.\u00a0 I used to only be concerned about the impact it had on the people there when I&#8217;d disappear for weeks at time.\u00a0 But now I realize it impacts me, too.\u00a0 Sometimes I can&#8217;t believe how much like Home it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to see if anyone else is up for another round of ice skating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been quite a few days since I got back to Dyeland.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had more than a few minutes at a time to myself.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t minded it.\u00a0 I missed everyone so much.\u00a0 But I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/?p=16\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrew.onthisside.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}