{"id":11222,"date":"2014-08-19T13:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2014-08-19T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:22:07","slug":"planting-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"Planting seeds&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11222]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-Blog Post Image wp-image-11223\" title=\"Seeds\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-580x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-580x785.jpg 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-236x320.jpg 236w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-960x1300.jpg 960w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-600x812.jpg 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-880x1191.jpg 880w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-295x400.jpg 295w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-243x330.jpg 243w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds-369x500.jpg 369w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Seeds.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m headed up to Shaker Village for what can best be called a family reunion.\u00a0 The folks that are coming to Shaker to join Jim and I are, in effect, family!\u00a0 We started a program to reward attendees that had attended four or more workshops, kind of a thank you and incentive program. \u00a0 What we never realized was that these people would transition from being great &#8220;customers&#8221; to being &#8220;truly great friends&#8221;!\u00a0 We got to know them as people, not just students!\u00a0 Over the years I&#8217;ve come to realize just how much our brothers and sisters in Christ and friends mean to us.\u00a0 God&#8217;s greatest gifts are the people he places in our lives.\u00a0 Nothing trumps the value of family and friends!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the next few days I will try to get off some blog entries, but if I miss a day or two, please forgive me, I&#8217;ve got something more important to do, love on the great gifts God has allowed me to enjoy and make sure they know how thankful I am for them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tomorrow I&#8217;m headed up to Shaker Village for what can best be called a family reunion.\u00a0 The folks that are coming to Shaker to join Jim and I are, in effect, family!\u00a0 We started a program to reward attendees that had attended four or more workshops, kind of a thank you and incentive program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}