{"id":24083,"date":"2023-01-16T22:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=24083"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:29:30","slug":"24083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/24083\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24084\" width=\"465\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-768x485.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-1536x970.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PXL_20230117_025825701.MP_-2048x1293.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark assembled our new furniture because he is awesome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.<\/p>\n<cite>Martin Luther King Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are experiencing a fullness of living, with its challenges, loss, connections, fun, and opportunities to serve. Have I cried this week? Oh, yes. I have also laughed, worked, and tried to repair my mistakes. In my daily journal of God&#8217;s tender mercies, I wrote during a particularly difficult time last week that my family was a great comfort. Because of them, I had hope for a softer, gentler time ahead. It came as our older children gathered for Sunday dinner and we talked about the influence of a good friend who passed away. It came as we listened to Tim talk about his missionary work and show an interest in his siblings. It came as Richard, Mark, and I spent all weekend together, living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself. Martin Luther King Jr. We are experiencing a fullness of living, with its challenges, loss, connections, fun, and opportunities to serve. Have I cried this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/24083\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLK weekend<\/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":[13,21,40,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-home","category-hope","category-life-according-to-angela","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083","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=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24097,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions\/24097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}