{"id":11017,"date":"2015-06-22T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=11017"},"modified":"2015-06-22T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:47:58","slug":"daniel-on-pioneer-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/daniel-on-pioneer-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel on Pioneer Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434984336511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1434984336511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434984336511.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel is off to Pioneer Trek this morning. If you see me with a distant look this week it&#8217;s because my thoughts are in Wyoming as I weave a long prayer for safety and strength for these kids. Or it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m choosing not to think and not to worry. This sendoff is a hard one for me. I try to send the kids off for adventures because it&#8217;s the right thing to do. I have raised our kids in a world that looks down on parents who let their kids out of their sight. It&#8217;s hard not to be affected by that paranoia. Plus I had heat stroke when I went on trek 3 years ago and I don&#8217;t want that for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced that worry is the opposite of what God wants us to do with our thoughts. So this week it&#8217;s prayer and work and zoning out, but not worry for me. Because even in my worst experiences in life, I have been lifted. Daniel will be lifted, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel is off to Pioneer Trek this morning. If you see me with a distant look this week it&#8217;s because my thoughts are in Wyoming as I weave a long prayer for safety and strength for these kids. Or it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m choosing not to think and not to worry. This sendoff is a hard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/daniel-on-pioneer-trek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel on Pioneer Trek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}