{"id":850,"date":"2010-11-11T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theglessners.org\/?p=850"},"modified":"2010-11-11T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:00:04","slug":"getting-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/getting-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, things are still very much in transition here.  We&#8217;re still looking for housing, starting to make\/renew contacts in Romero Vargas\/Pueblo Nuevo, and trying to get into a bit of a comfort zone as a family.  There&#8217;s nothing exciting to report, not really any profound thoughts to blog about.  Sometimes people get this exotic idea about missions as exciting and dramatic.  We kind of take a perverse pride in bursting that bubble!  Sometimes it&#8217;s just the drudge and grind of working through making an idea become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that is exciting is that Eddie Ferguson, a young man from Indiana, is coming into Puebla tonight.  We&#8217;ll be hanging out, showing him around town, and sharing our vision for ministry with him over the next week.  He&#8217;s interested in working here long-term.  So we&#8217;re excited about that!  Of course, that means we break him in with a meal from our favorite restaurant, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?cid=12298454057916433956&#038;q=el+balcon+antojitos+mexicanos,+Puebla,+PUE+Mexico&#038;hl=en&#038;ved=0CBkQ-QswAA&#038;ei=wVfcTPCTF4-opQTjxPnLCA&#038;sll=19.042119,-98.205926&#038;sspn=0.006295,0.006295&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=19.042499,-98.206747&#038;spn=0,0&#038;t=h&#038;z=20\" target=_blank>El Balc\u00f3n<\/a>, even though he getting in too late to go there with us.  Oh, well, we&#8217;ll bring home an <em>alambre<\/em> for him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, things are still very much in transition here. We&#8217;re still looking for housing, starting to make\/renew contacts in Romero Vargas\/Pueblo Nuevo, and trying to get into a bit of a comfort zone as a family. There&#8217;s nothing exciting to report, not really any profound thoughts to blog about. Sometimes people get this exotic idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglessners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}