{"id":271,"date":"2008-01-20T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2008-01-20T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T15:58:21","slug":"271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a weather weekend!  Snow!  Although I doesn&#8217;t seem much like flakes, more like clumps of snow.  Still cool&#8211;literally!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/245063980-M.jpg\" alt=\"snow1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/245065517-M.jpg\" alt=\"snow2\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/245066453-M.jpg\" alt=\"snow3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been working on getting the Love Banquet for Whirlwind together.  Ashley&#8217;s been working super hard on getting the invitations together.  The kids at the mission will help me put the rest of the mail out ready.<\/p>\n<p>K and I had a nice walk last night enjoying the snow in the neighborhood.  We did about 1.5 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse, Ashley and I went over to the Post Office in Lawrenceville to apply for their updated passports.  In a month or so all four of us should be ready for international travel.  Now, where will we go?<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that even if we go to Mexico and Canada we have to have a passport to get back into the country?  That&#8217;s changed as of January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always trying to learn new skills.  This weekend I&#8217;ve focused on Origami&#8211;the ancient Japanese art of folding paper.  It&#8217;s been fun.  Sort of like working a 3D puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 20 degrees outside right now.  Kathy&#8217;s out in it.  I&#8217;m sitting here typing with the heater between me and the laptop.  I thaw out my hands every minute or so.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see that Ron Paul got 2nd in Nevada.  Google Ron Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a weather weekend! Snow! Although I doesn&#8217;t seem much like flakes, more like clumps of snow. Still cool&#8211;literally! We&#8217;ve been working on getting the Love Banquet for Whirlwind together. Ashley&#8217;s been working super hard on getting the invitations together. The kids at the mission will help me put the rest of the mail [&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\/271"}],"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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}