{"id":751,"date":"2009-01-16T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/01\/16\/berg-and-bookman\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:05:03","slug":"berg-and-bookman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/berg-and-bookman\/","title":{"rendered":"Berg and Bookman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some readers here knew Philip Berg, our friend in Jerusalem who passed away <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/01\/16\/in-glory-philip-berg\/\">three years ago<\/a> today.&#160; Martha has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/shevet.org\/bergs.html\">message<\/a> about their situation and the Lord&#8217;s grace through difficult times.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>One of the most important people in the last 19.4 years of my life is Doug Bookman.&#160; He started a blog recently, and <a href=\"http:\/\/therabbittrail.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/16\/hear-hear-for-the-backwaters\/\">today&#8217;s insightful post<\/a> motivates me to point you to it.&#160;&#160; This type of blog is what blog readers were made for.&#160; If you check in every day, you &#8216;ll be disappointed.&#160; But subscribe to it in Google Reader (or similar) and you &#8216;ll be alerted whenever he posts next.&#160; I don&#8217;t think I know anyone who has more of value to say but won&#8217;t say it.&#160; At least where I can hear.<\/p>\n<p>It is a curious fact of my life that many of the most influential people have last names that start with B.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BergandBookman_EFCC\/ToddandBookmanDec1994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Todd and Bookman, Dec 1994\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"263\" alt=\"Todd and Bookman, Dec 1994\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BergandBookman_EFCC\/ToddandBookmanDec1994_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>December 1994. Planning meeting for a crazy dream of Bookman&#8217;s later known as &#8220;IBEX&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some readers here knew Philip Berg, our friend in Jerusalem who passed away three years ago today.&#160; Martha has written a message about their situation and the Lord&#8217;s grace through difficult times.&#160; One of the most important people in the last 19.4 years of my life is Doug Bookman.&#160; He started a blog recently, and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/berg-and-bookman\/\">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":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}