{"id":686,"date":"2009-05-29T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-05-29T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T02:45:00","slug":"tex-trek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Tex Trek!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was wonderful to spend time with my parents during this momentous time in their life:\u00a0 my dad&#8217;s retirement!\u00a0 The church had a big send off for him! I was so glad that Ashley made the trip with us!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549242086_doQka-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun to also reconnect with my brother Jim and his family!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549242136_V4AHj-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And to see friends from days gone by, Rollin Hooper and Joe Dickey!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549243922_3di97-M.jpg\" alt=\"jd\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love the Texas country side!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549253446_3fzxa-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549286676_zSMVT-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549243012_uEuTR-M.jpg\" alt=\"f\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Especially with Ashley!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549289767_BLFUW-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549256323_pSuYg-M.jpg\" alt=\"aa\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We never know how much time we&#8217;ll have on this planet, nor when we&#8217;ll see our friends again.\u00a0 My dad got word today that one of his dear friends had died.\u00a0 Very sad.<\/p>\n<p>Great to be home with MY family!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549296814_3jmGK-M.jpg\" alt=\"j\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/549296200_LafN6-M.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was wonderful to spend time with my parents during this momentous time in their life:\u00a0 my dad&#8217;s retirement!\u00a0 The church had a big send off for him! I was so glad that Ashley made the trip with us! Fun to also reconnect with my brother Jim and his family! And to see friends from [&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\/686"}],"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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}