{"id":379,"date":"2016-04-30T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:02:15","slug":"surprised-by-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Surprised by Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"380\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/?attachment_id=380\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?fit=1140%2C681&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1140,681\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tea\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?fit=1024%2C612&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?resize=1140%2C681\" alt=\"Surprised by Joy!\" width=\"1140\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?w=1140&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?resize=768%2C459&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tea.jpg?resize=1024%2C612&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of my life I&#8217;ve heard others say we should be careful what we pray for down here&#8211; and today I see\u00a0why. As per my blog post just yesterday, I recently began to pray for the fruit of joy to be cultivated in\u00a0my life much more. And this morning my husband gave me the very first &#8220;surprise&#8221; party of my 45-year\u00a0old life. At my beloved downtown tearoom, he gathered together several friends\/family members who\u00a0were part of my sick season in order to celebrate my transplant birthday (my turning five) this week.\u00a0Thank you most lovely ladies (and one gentleman) for making this special occasion even more special!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my life I&#8217;ve heard others say we should be careful what we pray for down here&#8211; and today I see\u00a0why. As per my blog post just yesterday, I recently began to pray for the fruit of joy to be cultivated in\u00a0my life much more. And this morning my husband gave me the very<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/?p=379\"> [&#8230;] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VlK3-67","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angeladentonfoss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}