{"id":116,"date":"2009-03-29T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-05-19T03:08:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T17:08:50","slug":"european-union-tells-papua-new-guineans-stop-that-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/2009\/03\/european-union-tells-papua-new-guineans-stop-that-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Tells Papua New Guineans, “Stop that praying!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t hopped over to Lower Ramu Bible Translation Ministry<\/a> for a few days.\u00a0 Look what I missed!<\/p>\n

You’re a guy looking for a wife and your sister is looking for a husband (possibly desperately)? We have the answer to your problem – Sister Exchange<\/a>!\u00a0 (No, dudes, you can’t use this to trade your pesky sister for a nicer one.)<\/p>\n

Those Tarzan movies show fantastic communication by drum signals<\/a>. Is it true? How does it work?<\/p>\n

And, my favourite, the hideously self-righteous and notoriously pushy European Union wants Papua New Guineans to STOP PRAYING<\/a>, at least when the EU is listening. Whether you are a believer or not, you’ll laugh out loud at the irony in this article.<\/p>\n

If you are wondering about the strange missionary from the Lower Ramu River, here’s a shot of him cleaning the bottom of his 30 foot sail boat, Stap Isi<\/a>,<\/em> on which he, his wife Kathy, and the ship’s cat, Dory, sailed<\/a> all the way from Moline, Illinois, down the Mississippi River,<\/em> and across the Pacific Ocean<\/em> to get back to work:<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that’s a commute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hadn’t hopped over to Lower Ramu Bible Translation Ministry for a few days. Look what I missed!<\/p>\n

You’re a guy looking for a wife and your sister is looking for a husband (possibly desperately)? We have the answer to your problem – Sister Exchange! (No, dudes, you can’t use this to trade your pesky […]<\/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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jans-interest","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}