{"id":2587,"date":"2011-02-03T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2011-02-03T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:45:14","slug":"happy-new-year-walmart-azalea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! Walmart! Azalea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!  Especially to you sweet Rabbits out there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9229\/1176804337_fHssK-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sleet today!  Glad it wasn&#8217;t freezing so it didn&#8217;t stick.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9233\/1176804463_gYMd2-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\nThis afternoon Jesse, Colleen and I went to Walmart.  I was checking out the toothpaste when I heard a familiar language beside me.  Kept listening and sure enough Swahili!  I immediately went into my Swahili banter asking them how they were, where they were from and how they liked it here.  They were completely flabbergasted! I reckon they don&#8217;t have too many white people start speaking to them in Swahili!  Yet another reason I love Atlanta.  And Walmart&#8211;the UN of stores.<\/p>\n<p>Had a good crew come with me to the mission today!  My whole family plus Colleen and Juanita!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9242\/1176805103_pJAF7-S.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9240\/1176804888_cYu2d-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><br \/>\n Two of the kids really had hard homework.  Took them forever to get done.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9236\/1176804661_jTUnx-S.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9237\/1176804872_xNxqY-S.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The others just enjoyed being loud.  I resemble that remark.<\/p>\n<p>Admin duties now.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9231\/1176804306_XFwoN-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you smarter than a first grader?  How many do you color in?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Missions\/Azalea-Place\/Azalea-23111\/IMG9238\/1176804839_MnLGA-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Especially to you sweet Rabbits out there. Sleet today! Glad it wasn&#8217;t freezing so it didn&#8217;t stick. This afternoon Jesse, Colleen and I went to Walmart. I was checking out the toothpaste when I heard a familiar language beside me. Kept listening and sure enough Swahili! I immediately went into my Swahili [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}