{"id":1480,"date":"2011-04-07T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-04-07T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:08:10","slug":"falling-in-love-in-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/falling-in-love-in-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling In Love in Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1481\" title=\"IMG_0387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0387-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0387-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0387-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0387.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Oh my, I&#8217;m smitten. I have fallen in love.<\/p>\n<p>This is Zoey. She&#8217;s a three year old bundle of Vida. There is no lack of Abundant Life here!! How appropriate that Zoey means &#8220;life.&#8221; She is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">perfectly<\/span> named!<\/p>\n<p>She squealed, ran to me, jumped in my arms and immediately said &#8220;You speak Spanish, not English!&#8221; More than once she chastised me. I never knew most of what she said because all the adults were rolling with laughter. They told me she liked me because she likes people who look like Grandpa. OK. I&#8217;ll take it! Call me whatever you want, just let me love on this precious child.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blessed many times this week, but one of those times was certainly when this little girl jumped into my arms; maybe THIS is why I came to Nicaragua!!!<\/p>\n<p>What a blessing to be with Pastor Harrison, his beautiful wife Jenny, and the precious life&#8212;Zoey&#8212;that God has given them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, I&#8217;m smitten. I have fallen in love. This is Zoey. She&#8217;s a three year old bundle of Vida. There is no lack of Abundant Life here!! How appropriate that Zoey means &#8220;life.&#8221; She is perfectly named! She squealed, ran to me, jumped in my arms and immediately said &#8220;You speak Spanish, not English!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}