{"id":23791,"date":"2022-12-01T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=23791"},"modified":"2022-12-12T01:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:04:38","slug":"tender-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/tender-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"tender mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/PXL_20211202_234940919.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One year ago today we said goodbye to Timothy at the missionary training center in Provo. I cried the whole way home and Paige and I collapsed in our living room. I fell asleep, but awoke to this little ornament that had turned on while I cry-slept. I didn&#8217;t know it would be the comfort I would need in that moment, and for many days, all the days of December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ornament is still here a year later, with fresh new batteries that arrived this afternoon, just in time to commemorate a year of tender mercies for my Timothy and for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1112022174511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1112022174511.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1112022174511.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1112022174511-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1112022174511-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today we said goodbye to Timothy at the missionary training center in Provo. I cried the whole way home and Paige and I collapsed in our living room. I fell asleep, but awoke to this little ornament that had turned on while I cry-slept. I didn&#8217;t know it would be the comfort &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/tender-mercy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tender mercy<\/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":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791","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=23791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23791\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}