{"id":1854,"date":"2013-04-28T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2013-04-28T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T14:08:54","slug":"first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/first-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Jon<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will be short. I don\u2019t really have that many words to describe this anyway. We\u2019ve been waiting and praying for 3 years for this.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 26<sup>th<\/sup>, our first guest and friend arrived at Casa Ahav\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>Papa Zakarias has been here for 2 days now and both God and he have been extremely gracious as we\u2019ve all begun learning how to live together.<\/p>\n<p>Playing checkers in our back yard on a rough wooden table, throwing a ball with Gasher, smiling with Anaya and Jovie, Papa Zakarias is such a welcome addition to our home and we look forward to having many more papas, mamas, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters and friends stay with us.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for praying for and with us that this would happen. It is now happening. 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I don\u2019t really have that many words to describe this anyway. We\u2019ve been waiting and praying for 3 years for this. Friday, April 26th, our first guest and friend arrived at Casa Ahav\u00e1. Papa Zakarias has been here for 2 days now and both God and he have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}