{"id":481,"date":"2014-12-22T04:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-12-23T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T11:48:04","slug":"merry-christmas-plus-a-few-other-bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas: Plus a few other bits and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pray that your celebration of Christ&#8217;s first advent is blessed and meaningful. The Cox family is planning a simple celebration with a meal Christmas Eve and the opening of stockings on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Micah Joy and I went on a game drive and had an incredible encounter with a leopard resulting in some fantastic photos. You can read the story and see the photos at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/leopard.htm\" target=\"_blank\">www.cox-net.com\/leopard.htm<\/a>. Since I am looking into publishing the story and photos, this site is not public.\u00a0Please email me for access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/leopard.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-482 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/12\/Leopard_Teaser-500x97.jpg\" alt=\"Leopard_Teaser\" width=\"500\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Leopard_Teaser-500x97.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Leopard_Teaser-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Leopard_Teaser.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your prayers for our trip to Uganda. The trip went well. Unfortunately, by the time we received our passports and made it to Uganda, Brad (Donna&#8217;s nephew) was already in South Sudan. Although we had a great time with his wife, Kate, and their two boys. Below is a picture of Nehemiah and Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/12\/NLC_MB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/12\/NLC_MB.jpg\" alt=\"NLC_MB\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NLC_MB.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NLC_MB-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pray that your celebration of Christ&#8217;s first advent is blessed and meaningful. The Cox family is planning a simple celebration with a meal Christmas Eve and the opening of stockings on Christmas morning. Recently Micah Joy and I went on a game drive and had an incredible encounter with a leopard resulting in some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}