{"id":26042,"date":"2023-07-15T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=26042"},"modified":"2023-07-19T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T03:11:36","slug":"20-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/20-months\/","title":{"rendered":"20 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/VID_25180823_092730_107-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each month, I add a new house on my kitchen windowsill to mark the time that Tim has served as a missionary. I think of the people he has met, and the many houses he has entered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This display was marketed as an advent calendar, but the anticipation of placing a new house each month might actually be more exciting than counting down the days until Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like to find ways to mark our days. Sometimes it&#8217;s impossible to convey all that has come during a period of time, but somehow, these little houses hold my secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, I add a new house on my kitchen windowsill to mark the time that Tim has served as a missionary. I think of the people he has met, and the many houses he has entered. This display was marketed as an advent calendar, but the anticipation of placing a new house each month &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/20-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 months<\/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":[10,36,39,20,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-jesus-christ","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela","category-missionary","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042","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=26042"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26068,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26042\/revisions\/26068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}