{"id":1540,"date":"2009-05-09T07:25:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2009-05-09T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T14:10:20","slug":"an-unhappy-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/an-unhappy-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unhappy Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had finished doing my coffee, loosing the dog, powering up my computers, and reading my Bible. <!--more No, I won't cumber the front page with any further details! --><\/p>\n<p>I was lowering a pan of hot water and Epsom salts onto the floor under my desk so I could soak my infected toe while working on a <a href=\"\/ciervo\/\">Spanish wallpaper<\/a> based on a verse I&#8217;d read in my Spanish Bible just a bit earlier. (Yeah, I know &#8212; long sentence.)<\/p>\n<p>When somehow I bumped my old purchased-in-Mexico-City-in-1981 Bible. Down it fell into the pan of hot, salty water. Since both of my hands were busy holding the pan, I couldn&#8217;t speedily fish out the Bible&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude25<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m. Just. Sick.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can replace the book. We even sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/op1.shtml\">Spanish Bibles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a very special Bible to me. How many times I&#8217;ve read and studied, <a href=\"\/mvp\/?p=589\">preached<\/a> and taught from it! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s ruined.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s supposed to represent the death of a vision, the symbol of a hope gone cold.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, not a happy beginning to a sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had finished doing my coffee, loosing the dog, powering up my computers, and reading my Bible.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[316,171],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat","tag-bible","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}