A new semester began this week. I have some hungry students and I am thankful.<\/p>\n
David Brooks has some good advice on comforting those who are suffering<\/a>. One good line: “Don’t compare, ever. Don’t say, “I understand what it’s like to\u2026.”<\/p>\n Israel recently jailed and deported a British tourist for telling others about Jesus<\/a>.<\/p>\n This map of American counties shows them according to the largest religious grouping<\/a>. I was surprised by how much is Catholic.<\/p>\n I never knew that Moscow had so much traffic<\/a>. (Or so few police cars.)<\/p>\n Here’s one of the better Coca-Cola commercials<\/a> I’ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new semester began this week. I have some hungry students and I am thankful. David Brooks has some good advice on comforting those who are suffering. One good line: “Don’t compare, ever. Don’t say, “I understand what it’s like to\u2026.” Israel recently jailed and deported a British tourist for telling others about Jesus. This\u2026 Read More »<\/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-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}