{"id":1731,"date":"2008-09-30T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T23:42:53","slug":"i-wish-this-month-had-31-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"I wish this month had 31 days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/stacy_jonathan_36555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>If you&#8217;re a regular Bible reader, you probably read a chapter of Proverbs each day. Since there are 31 chapters, a month with 31 days gets you all the way through. When there aren&#8217;t 31 days, you can just read an extra chapter or three to get &#8217;em all before starting over on the first of the new month.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 31 is my favorite because it describes my wife, pictured above with little Sparky. The latter portion describes the virtuous woman, whose price &#8220;is far above rubies.&#8221; Here are some of my favorite verses:<\/p>\n<p>11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.<br \/>\n12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.<br \/>\n28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.<br \/>\n29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.<br \/>\n30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.<\/p>\n<p>I have a sweet, beautiful, hard working wife&#8230;a woman of integrity and character. She&#8217;s such an amazing mommy for our two little guys, and makes our house a home. She brought the little fellas to the shop to visit me today, so I got to run around with them for a few minutes before tucking them back into the truck.<\/p>\n<p>I like to tell her on the 31st of the month, &#8220;I read about you today.&#8221; After posting this, I&#8217;ll read ahead a chapter, since tomorrow brings chapter one. She stepped out for a bit so I got the dishes done, house tidied up, and little boys tucked snugly into bed. This isn&#8217;t the only day I try to show my appreciation, but it is somewhat special I suppose. Next month, when most people are celebrating Halloween, I&#8217;ll be celebrating my wife again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a regular Bible reader, you probably read a chapter of Proverbs each day. Since there are 31 chapters, a month with 31 days gets you all the way through. When there aren&#8217;t 31 days, you can just read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-family-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}