{"id":5059,"date":"2010-09-23T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:17:12","slug":"thankful-thursday-settling-into-two-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100923-5059.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Settling into two towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to settle into my double-lives, I think.  At least, bits and pieces are coming together to make this wild season of working two jobs in two different towns a bit more workable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/thankfulness\/thankful-thursday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" src=\"images\/buttons\/thankfulthursday.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the sweet, singing <b>voices<\/b> of the residents who&#8217;ve already become dear to me<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>lab coat<\/b> that covers the fact that I can rarely find shirts with long enough sleeves<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>umbrella<\/b> that I remembered to bring home from work&#8211;allowing me to use it this morning in the rain<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>blanket<\/b> under my fitted sheet that keeps the airbed from freezing me to death in the night!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>book club<\/b> that has resumed, giving me something (one thing) other than work that I force myself to take a break for<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>Bible study<\/b> that has welcomed me as a half-dweller and sympathizes with my mixed emotions about becoming a full-dweller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for the <b>God<\/b> who graciously grants me each breath, each day, each person, each place.<\/p>\n<p>I have been blessed beyond measure to have such a rich and full life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to settle into my double-lives, I think. At least, bits and pieces are coming together to make this wild season of working two jobs in two different towns a bit more workable. Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; &#8230;for the sweet, singing voices of the residents who&#8217;ve already become dear to me &#8230;for the lab coat &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Settling into two towns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100923-5059.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Settling into two towns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[616,946,1169],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}