{"id":1146,"date":"2012-01-13T21:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2012-01-13T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:28:55","slug":"it-was-worth-waiting-in-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/it-was-worth-waiting-in-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"It was worth waiting in the cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I visited the market in Lanvollon<\/a>. It is a small town, about 20 minutes drive from us, with a small weekly market. I was on my own, with our small stand. I arrived at 10 am and stayed until about 11:20.<\/p>\n

It was cold. There weren’t many people around. Most people walked passed me looking down and avoiding eye contact. A few others said hello.<\/p>\n

I didn’t get to speak to anyone until the lady from the oyster stand next to me walked passed on her way to get herself a coffee. She stopped and we had a little chat.She was very enthusiastic about reading the Bible and had never read it. I offered her one, but the print was too small. She said she’d come back after her coffee to check if she could read it with her glasses.<\/p>\n

She went back to her stand but I had to leave, so I stooped by her stand and asked if she was still interested. She was. She got her glasses and had a look. She could see the characters. So I left a Bible and a tract with her. She seemed excited at the idea of reading it. Let’s now pray that the seed of the Word will fall on good ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I visited the market in Lanvollon. It is a small town, about 20 minutes drive from us, with a small weekly market. I was on my own, with our small stand. I arrived at 10 am and stayed until about 11:20. It was cold. There weren’t many people around. Most people walked passed … Continue reading “It was worth waiting in the cold”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}