{"id":1222,"date":"2010-12-08T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/12\/08\/december-8-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:31:53","slug":"december-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/december-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/12\/wildfire_in_israel.html\">These photos<\/a> of the Mount Carmel fire bring home the devastation.&#160; About half of the forest was destroyed and they estimate it will take forty years to fully recover.&#160; If you were with me for L&amp;B, you probably stayed at the guesthouse at Beit Oren.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to believe that the TSA security system is anything more than an inconvenience, don&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/11\/the-things-he-carried\/7057\/1\/\">this article<\/a> by Jeffrey Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rafaqat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pornography-infographic.jpg\">These statistics<\/a> on internet pornography may surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this description of one man&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/the-story-of-a-friends-cab-ride-in-london\">London taxi ride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world has changed a lot in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes.htm\">last 200 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My list of favorite books wouldn&#8217;t have to be very long to include Jerry Bridges, <em>Trusting God<\/em>.&#160; For a few days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0046EDOR2\/713713713-20\">you can get it free<\/a> for your Kindle (or for your Kindle for PC app).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos of the Mount Carmel fire bring home the devastation.&#160; About half of the forest was destroyed and they estimate it will take forty years to fully recover.&#160; If you were with me for L&amp;B, you probably stayed at the guesthouse at Beit Oren. If you want to believe that the TSA security system\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/december-8-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}