{"id":1409,"date":"2012-04-04T02:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2015-03-26T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:40:23","slug":"we-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/we-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We Made It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Friends and Loved Ones,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, after 24 hours plus of fly time and layovers we finally made it to Cebu.\u00a0 It has been a little over a week since we arrived and we&#8217;re almost over our jet lag.\u00a0 As we traveled on deputation a wise veteran missionary warned us that the first two months on the field can be the most difficult. Entering the airport to leave Buffalo I never anticipated any difficulties.\u00a0 As we were checking in, we discovered that we were missing some necessary paperwork to leave the States.\u00a0 As a result my wife was immediately flagged, making it impossible for us to leave on the 26th.\u00a0 <strong>Thankfully our travel agent knew how to handle the situation and made it possible for us to fly out the very next day.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/strong> We&#8217;re not sure why the Lord delayed our trip.\u00a0 Perhaps it was an opportunity to be a good testimony for the travel agent.\u00a0 She was very surprised that we weren&#8217;t upset throughout the whole ordeal.\u00a0 Another\u00a0 possibility could be that the Lord was protecting us from something.\u00a0<strong> Whatever the reason, God showed us that He was in control.\u00a0 I know that God wants us here and that He is with us as we begin our new life in Cebu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends and Loved Ones, Well, after 24 hours plus of fly time and layovers we finally made it to Cebu.\u00a0 It has been a little over a week since we arrived and we&#8217;re almost over our jet lag.\u00a0 As we traveled on deputation a wise veteran missionary warned us that the first two months on the field can be &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/we-made-it\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}