{"id":4573,"date":"2015-11-23T06:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2015-11-23T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T13:34:03","slug":"let-the-day-begin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Let the Day begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/sunrise_windmill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Here&#8217;s to the babies in a brand new world,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the beauty of the stars&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the travelers of the open road,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the dreamers and the bards&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the soldiers on the desert dunes,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the farmers in the fields&#8230;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the preachers of the sacred Word,<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s to the loving God who heals&#8230;<\/i><\/center><em>Here&#8217;s to you, my little loves, with blessing from above, now let the Day begin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just sharing a friendly good morning and a now-historic photo of the windmill which used to stand near Farmer&#8217;s Livestock southeast of Bismarck (it&#8217;s a parking lot now).\u00a0 Lyrics modified from one of my favorite songs by The Call.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;ve been posting very little lately.\u00a0 Naturally that&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t been out with my camera lately.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to rectify that, but it&#8217;s going to take a little bit yet.\u00a0 I have good reason:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you&#8217;ve probably discerned, nearly <strong>everyone in my little family<\/strong> has had a very serious medical predicament.\u00a0 No two have been alike.\u00a0 I myself have had to make multiple trips to Mayo Clinic for complicated surgeries, the first of which failed.<\/li>\n<li>In the midst of all that, we gave up our house and were homeless briefly.\u00a0 Thanks to friends from church, we had a place to stay while we hunted for a new place.\u00a0 Then it was a stretch as apartment dwellers, with most of our lives in bins as we awaited the next stage of life.\u00a0 Now we&#8217;re in a new home, and it is wonderful &#8211; but time consuming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a LOT over the past two years.\u00a0 God has brought us through many serious situations.\u00a0 He&#8217;s sent a lot of people our way to provide assistance.\u00a0 We&#8217;re humbled as we look back over the past two years and, although we&#8217;re not out of the woods completely, we&#8217;re excited to see what He has in store for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to the babies in a brand new world, Here&#8217;s to the beauty of the stars&#8230; Here&#8217;s to the travelers of the open road, Here&#8217;s to the dreamers and the bards&#8230; Here&#8217;s to the soldiers on the desert dunes, Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}