{"id":264,"date":"2006-11-30T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=264"},"modified":"2006-11-30T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T12:31:11","slug":"a-challenging-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"A Challenging Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that &#8220;challenge&#8221; in marketing doublespeak is synonym for trouble or difficulty; but here I retain the original, unpolluted meaning.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and me have been talking, and there are just too many things we need to get done in our house and car; and besides, she really, really needs to take a good break from her exhausting job. Therefore, some expenditures would be in order, save for a little technicality: We are severely strained financially. And even more so, I had to take a 40% cut on my paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>We have been doing the math, and it seems like we can afford those expenses. However, the undertaking will tax our stewardship and administration abilities to the maximum. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I will need your prayers for wisdom and provision from the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that &#8220;challenge&#8221; in marketing doublespeak is synonym for trouble or difficulty; but here I retain the original, unpolluted meaning. My wife and me have been talking, and there are just too many things we need to get done in our house and car; and besides, she really, really needs to take a good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}