{"id":672,"date":"2008-07-16T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T02:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/07\/16\/plano-israel-and-iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T20:48:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T02:48:48","slug":"plano-israel-and-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/plano-israel-and-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano, Israel, and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

The free download<\/a> of the month at ChristianAudio.com is Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God.<\/p>\n

You don’t realize how many journalists you like until they die.  I liked Tim Russert and I liked Tony Snow<\/a>.  I don’t think there’s anyone else I really like.<\/p>\n

A month ago my dad helped me connect an antenna to our TV.  Last night I watched a (fuzzy) hour of the All-Star game with my kids.  Actually, most of it was the pre-game show.  In any case, I was a bit chagrined to be watching it with them.  The baseball was fine, but the commercials, yikes.  My boys like to ask me about words they don’t know yet, and some of the ones they use, I’m not ready to explain (link<\/a> for the ultra-curious out there; see side effects; I’ll stop doing this when my boys find out where my blog is).<\/p>\n

There’s a column in the JPost about the destruction of Iraq’s nuclear facilities in light of the possible Israeli strike on Iran.  Interesting reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In some ways, Plano is like Israel<\/a>.  Fortunately, they’re not yet doing full body searches when you enter a store or restaurant.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Plano was just ranked #1<\/a> place to build personal wealth by Salary.com.  That would mean more to me if I had a job.  Apparently Forbes.com recently ranked our county as the 14th best place<\/a> in the country to raise a family.  I don’t think I would disagree, knowing what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The free download of the month at ChristianAudio.com is Brother Lawrence, Practicing the Presence of God. You don’t realize how many journalists you like until they die.  I liked Tim Russert and I liked Tony Snow.  I don’t think there’s anyone else I really like. A month ago my dad helped me connect an antenna\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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}