{"id":162,"date":"2009-07-17T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:16:52","slug":"back-home-in-madang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/2009\/07\/back-home-in-madang\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Home in Madang"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a month since I have posted anything.\u00a0 I got back to Madang and hit the ground running.\u00a0 Our Director had to leave before I got back to Madang, so I went back to work immediately.\u00a0 We have several people from the United States of America with us right now and many of our Papuan New Guinea co-workers have been in Madang also. They have been working on checking Scripture portions.\u00a0 Three different language groups have been in Madang having their translations checked by their consultants.\u00a0 This has added to our normal work load, but the checking has gone very well, so it has been worth the extra work.<\/p>\n

Jan and I had a good visit with my sisters and their families in Springfield.\u00a0 We left there and went to Sedona Arizona to spend a week with my childhood friend, Grace.\u00a0 Our time there was wonderful.\u00a0 Grace and I have been close friends since my brother Tommy introduced us to each other at the age of four.<\/p>\n

\"Grace<\/a>

Grace Flicker and me at the Elephant Foot Restaurant Phoenix AZ<\/p><\/div>\n

We took a day trip to the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 It is only a few hours drive from Grace’s home in Sedona,  Arizona.\u00a0 As we traveled we had a conversation about how the word awesome was overused to the point that it has lost some of its meaning.\u00a0 When I got into the car after my first sight of the Grand Canyon I said to Jan and Grace.\u00a0 “I am sorry but I have to say that was Awesome”.\u00a0 They both agreed that was the correct use of the word. I have put a few of my pictures of the Grand Canyon below.\u00a0 Pictures are not a good way to see the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 You really must see it for yourself.<\/p>\n

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Grand Canyon<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Canyon Two<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Canyon Three<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Canyon Four<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Canyon Five<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Canyon Six<\/p><\/div>\n

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Grand Canyon Seven<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Grace<\/a>

Grace Flicker at the Grand Canyon<\/p><\/div>\n

Grace retired this year from teaching.\u00a0 She decided to teach two or three days a week to make the transition from full time work to retirement easier.\u00a0 Grace came to visit us in Madang five years ago when I had my 60th birthday.<\/p>\n

\"Grace<\/a>

Grace Flicker and Jan Sedona AZ<\/p><\/div>\n

Every day when Grace leaves home she sees Bell Rock.\u00a0 Sedona is quite an amazing place because of the red rocks.<\/p>\n

\"Bell<\/a>

Bell Rock Sedona AZ<\/p><\/div>\n

I hope to get back to at least four posts a month now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a month since I have posted anything. I got back to Madang and hit the ground running. Our Director had to leave before I got back to Madang, so I went back to work immediately. We have several people from the United States of America with us right now and many of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixed-nuts","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messersmith.name\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}