{"id":3227,"date":"2015-08-09T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2015-08-16T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:38:13","slug":"prayer-chewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2015\/prayer-chewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Chewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks go prayer walking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/prayer-chewing.jpg\" alt=\"toasted pancake\" width=\"300\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/prayer-chewing.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-content\/prayer-chewing-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A few minutes ago, I chose to do some prayer chewing. (Why not?)<\/p>\n<p>Our youngest son Andy is on the East Coast somewhere singing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapestrychambersingers.com\/#!events\/cnnz\">Tapestry Chamber Singers<\/a>. He likes to eat leftover pancakes, toasted. I needed a late afternoon snack. I opened the fridge. I saw a bag with leftover pancakes from yesterday morning&#8217;s breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>I toasted one in his honor. And thought of him. And prayed for him. While I chewed. (It&#8217;s what Dads should do.) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>May those in their audiences be blessed by him and his fellow singers. Amen.<\/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>An absent son, a present pancake, a father&#8217;s present<!-- 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,5],"tags":[971,547,446],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-my-photos","tag-food","tag-parenting","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}