{"id":1650,"date":"2011-11-02T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T23:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/november-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T23:41:35","slug":"november-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/november-2\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the longtime <a href=\"http:\/\/planoblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/plano-pastor-found-dead-in-ark.html\">senior pastor of a large Baptist church<\/a> around the corner from our house committed suicide last week, I was wishing I had a classroom.<\/p>\n<p>I more than doubled my knowledge about the ampersand from <a href=\"http:\/\/sixrevisions.com\/infographics\/visual-guide-ampersand\/\">this visual guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Austen really likes the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/o-israel.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/book-review-son-of-hamas.html\">Son of Hamas<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Alcorn&#8217;s booklet on Sexual Temptation is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epm.org\/store\/product\/sexual-temptation-booklet\/\">for free download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you memorize Scripture regularly, you don&#8217;t need <a href=\"http:\/\/counselingoneanother.com\/2011\/11\/01\/6-tips-for-memorizing-scripture\/\">to read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NIV 2011 has <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhamilton.info\/2011\/10\/26\/niv-2011-removes-selah-from-the-biblical-text\/\">moved Selah from the text<\/a> to the footnotes. I would disagree both with the NIV and Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8216;ve made a lot of progress <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/photos\/2011\/09\/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html\">cleaning up Sendai<\/a> after the tsunami (photo comparisons).<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_dm_ltzuus&amp;docId=1000740101&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bibleplaces-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">Christmas albums<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none !important; margin: 0px; border-left-style: none !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=713713713-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> for $5 each. An older one that I&#8217;ve always liked is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00138H30S\/713713713-20\">Michael W. Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the longtime senior pastor of a large Baptist church around the corner from our house committed suicide last week, I was wishing I had a classroom. I more than doubled my knowledge about the ampersand from this visual guide. My friend Austen really likes the book Son of Hamas. Randy Alcorn&#8217;s booklet on Sexual\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/november-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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}