{"id":951,"date":"2012-04-08T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2012-04-08T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:45:46","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-94-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 94-98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3rd Apr &#8211; Went\u00a0 to the home of a Muslim woman to teach her English, but she wanted me to explain Christianity and to tell her what I know about Islam.<\/p>\n<p>4th Apr &#8211; Just read that the woman who found Moses in the bulrushes, and then raised him as her own, was one of Pharaoh&#8217;s 59 daughters.<\/p>\n<p>5th Apr &#8211; Another Muslim student is going to Saudi Arabia, where she&#8217;ll write a draft essay and send it to me in Australia to check before she sends it to her teacher.\u00a0 The essay is on\u00a0<em>The Metamorphosis<\/em> by Kafka.<\/p>\n<p>6th Apr &#8211; I&#8217;m halfway through <em>The Member of the Wedding<\/em> by Carson McCullers, about a girl preparing for a family wedding; she buys special clothes and wears them for some time in the story. Today I&#8217;m preparing my special clothes for my son&#8217;s marriage next week when I will be a member of the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>7th Apr &#8211; A blog article about a French Catholic church, written by a blogger I follow, was used as a sermon by a Presbyterian minister.\u00a0 Imagine!\u00a0 Your blog words spoken in public by someone you&#8217;ve never met!\u00a0 See Dennis Aubrey&#8217;s article about the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine,V\u00e9zelay, France:\u00a0 <a title=\"Elle chante, P\u00e8re\" href=\"http:\/\/vialucispress.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/01\/elle-chante-pere-dennis-aubrey-2\/\">Elle chante, P\u00e8re.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then hear Gordon Stewart read the blog post in his sermon:\u00a0 <a title=\"The Stones are Singing:  Sermon by Gordon Stewart\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-7DHowu2hMY\">The Stones are Singing.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/vialucispress.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/4r1w7438.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narthex tympanum, Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, V\u00e9zelay, France (Photo by Dennis Aubrey)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd Apr &#8211; Went\u00a0 to the home of a Muslim woman to teach her English, but she wanted me to explain Christianity and to tell her what I know about Islam. 4th Apr &#8211; Just read that the woman who found Moses in the bulrushes, and then raised him as her own, was one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 94-98&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,80,7,21,22,23,81],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-18","tag-christianity","tag-photography","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-unusual","tag-vezelay-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}