{"id":769,"date":"2008-06-02T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2008-06-02T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T04:03:00","slug":"an-unexpected-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20080602-769.htm","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got done with work <i>only<\/i> 40 minutes late today. My attitude, well, it could have been better.  I was tired, frustrated, reliving the stresses of the day.  Missing paperwork. Feeling rushed. Inconsiderate guests.  Not enough to drink.  Hot and muggy.  Chaotic clean-up.  It wasn&#8217;t one of my best days.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the library only 3 minutes before closing&#8211;certainly not enough time to go in to return my books.  I dropped them in the book drop.  Seeing my friend Joanna&#8217;s car parked nearby, I decided on a whim to park next to her and wait until she came out.  It was only a few minutes before she emerged.<\/p>\n<p>We chatted.  I vented.  She asked me if I&#8217;d like to go for a walk tomorrow morning.  Unexpected blessings.  A chance to catch up.  It&#8217;s been a long time.  Something to look forward to.  A reason to not spend all night on the computer.  Re-awakening friendship.  God is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got done with work only 40 minutes late today. My attitude, well, it could have been better. I was tired, frustrated, reliving the stresses of the day. Missing paperwork. Feeling rushed. Inconsiderate guests. Not enough to drink. Hot and muggy. Chaotic clean-up. It wasn&#8217;t one of my best days. I arrived at the library &#8230; <a title=\"An Unexpected Blessing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20080602-769.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Unexpected Blessing<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}