{"id":2045,"date":"2013-09-28T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2014-03-03T03:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T08:19:48","slug":"birthday-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/birthday-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2270\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/DSC02929.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2270\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2270 \" alt=\"Elizabeth Baran\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/DSC02929-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/DSC02929-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/DSC02929-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Baran<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 28th marked Elizabeth&#8217;s second birthday since we moved to the Philippines.\u00a0<\/span> <em>It has been a blessing to see how well she has adjusted to living here.<\/em> She is learning the language and starting to feel brave enough to use what she knows. People are shocked when they hear her say something in Cebuano. Cebu is one of the top ten tourist destinations in the world so a lot of foreigners come and go and never really speak Cebuano. So when Elizabeth speaks, people are very curious why she is learning their language. <strong>I am very thankful for Elizabeth&#8217;s willingness to be a missionary&#8217;s wife, so far from home, in a land that is very different from her own.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Happy Birthday sweetheart! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0September 28th marked Elizabeth&#8217;s second birthday since we moved to the Philippines.\u00a0 It has been a blessing to see how well she has adjusted to living here. She is learning the language and starting to feel brave enough to use what she knows. People are shocked when they hear her say something in Cebuano. Cebu is one of the top &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/birthday-blessings\/\">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":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}