{"id":844,"date":"2009-07-06T18:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/07\/06\/july-6\/"},"modified":"2009-07-06T18:12:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:12:26","slug":"july-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/july-6\/","title":{"rendered":"July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sermon went well, thank you.&#160; One guy called me a &#8220;velvet hammer.&#8221;&#160; That <em>might<\/em> be good.&#160; Another guy thinks my intonations and inflections sound like John MacArthur.&#160; That would be very good.&#160; (But, of course, it&#8217;s not true.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.komando.com\/2009\/06\/18\/african-thunderstorm\/\">neat music video<\/a>.&#160; It starts with a thunderstorm (turn up your volume for this) and then goes to a version of Toto&#8217;s Africa that may be better than the original.&#160; All a capella. <\/p>\n<p>You &#8216;ve got all your files backed up, right?&#160; There is no excuse for losing data. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000VZCEUI\/713713713-20\">1 <em>terabyte<\/em> costs only $119<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived home yesterday after a church gathering, we had four phone messages waiting for us. All were received within a span of about 5 minutes on a Sunday evening, from a debt collection agency.&#160; This is a part of the world I am not very familiar with, and given the tone of voice and their persistence, I hope that continues.&#160; (I called back today and they had the wrong number.)<\/p>\n<p>I bought a plane ticket to Israel today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sermon went well, thank you.&#160; One guy called me a &#8220;velvet hammer.&#8221;&#160; That might be good.&#160; Another guy thinks my intonations and inflections sound like John MacArthur.&#160; That would be very good.&#160; (But, of course, it&#8217;s not true.) This is a neat music video.&#160; It starts with a thunderstorm (turn up your volume for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/july-6\/\">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-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}