{"id":530,"date":"2007-07-22T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/07\/22\/the-next-guy\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T01:31:14","slug":"the-next-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/the-next-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some have asked who is going to be taking my place at IBEX.&nbsp; The answer is Abner Chou.&nbsp; Abner was not an IBEX semester student, but has distinguished himself in so many other ways that I&#8217;m not going to try to count or list them.&nbsp; His wife, Johanna (Dobos) Chou, was an IBEX student some years ago and brings a knowledge of Israel and a servant&#8217;s heart to the school.&nbsp; I think Abner will do a great job, and I only regret that I won&#8217;t be able to work alongside him.&nbsp; But if the Lord tarries, I predict that one day I&#8217;ll have the opportunity.&nbsp; One curious fact: we both began\/are beginning teaching at IBEX at the age of 24.&nbsp; Abner, however, has more education than I did at that age, or do now.&nbsp; May the Lord greatly bless Abner and Johanna!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/c27abe78096d_11F0F\/ToddandAbneronHillofArbel.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Todd-and-Abner-on-Hill-of-Arbel\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/c27abe78096d_11F0F\/ToddandAbneronHillofArbel_thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><em>Todd and Abner on Arbel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some have asked who is going to be taking my place at IBEX.&nbsp; The answer is Abner Chou.&nbsp; Abner was not an IBEX semester student, but has distinguished himself in so many other ways that I&#8217;m not going to try to count or list them.&nbsp; His wife, Johanna (Dobos) Chou, was an IBEX student some\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/the-next-guy\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}