{"id":263,"date":"2005-01-02T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=263"},"modified":"2005-01-02T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T22:08:24","slug":"sunday-afternoon-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now on the afternoon church schedule. The meetings now start at<br \/>\n 12:30 p.m. and end at 3:30 p.m. The afternoon schedule is quite nice. I can<br \/>\n sleep in, have a leasurely morning, and leave for Church about 12:15.<\/p>\n<p> Testimony meetings always start with a bunch of the kids standing up to<br \/>\n bear their fledgling testimonies. It&#8217;s good for these kids to stand up and<br \/>\n express a little bit about their beliefs. We&#8217;ve gotten to know a few people<br \/>\n in the Ward. I like this place and enjoy being here. It has started to feel<br \/>\n like home.<\/p>\n<p> My brother Perry also has a web log (see the link on the right). He&#8217;s been<br \/>\n collecting lists from people about the year 2004. It&#8217;s worth checking out<br \/>\n the comments to his blog entry. There are some things that I&#8217;m quite happy<br \/>\n about:<\/p>\n<p> 1. Internet connectivity. Slowly but surely I can be connected to the<br \/>\n Internet wherever I&#8217;m located. Having connectivity across Europe this fall<br \/>\n seems quite incredible to me.<\/p>\n<p> 2. Photography. I ran across a website the other day that featured images<br \/>\n of people the author had met around the world over the past year. I&#8217;ve<br \/>\n taken lots of pictures of things and perhaps it&#8217;s time to start taking more<br \/>\n pictures of people.<\/p>\n<p> 3. Family close by. Not since we lived in Chardon, Ohio have we lived<br \/>\n reasonably close to family &#8212; particulaly family that don&#8217;t require a long<br \/>\n distance phone call. In Chardon it was Nina&#8217;s family and here it is my<br \/>\n family.<\/p>\n<p> 4. New beginnings that aren&#8217;t so very new. It&#8217;s a new year that is barely<br \/>\n distinguishable from last year, but the arbitrary New Year affords an<br \/>\n opportunity to change some things.<\/p>\n<p> Life is good for us!<\/p>\n<p> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now on the afternoon church schedule. The meetings now start at 12:30 p.m. and end at 3:30 p.m. The afternoon schedule is quite nice. I can sleep in, have a leasurely morning, and leave for Church about 12:15. Testimony meetings always start with a bunch of the kids standing up to bear their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Afternoon in Church<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-4f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}