{"id":4412,"date":"2004-01-21T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2016-02-12T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T13:31:56","slug":"a-room-of-smiling-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"A Room of Smiling Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040122streams.jpg\" alt=\"20040122streams\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040122streams.jpg 375w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040122streams-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I have been finding so many things that have been &#8220;out of sight, out of mind&#8221; while they were sitting in storage for over a year (mostly books read a long time ago). This is a find that brought back a good feeling as when one remembers an old trusted friend. It is a book called &#8220;Streams in the Desert&#8221; by Mrs. Charles Cowman, a book of daily readings. This is the third time that I &#8220;discovered&#8221; this book. The first two times were while in the midst of divorces. I found an old copy of &#8220;Streams&#8221; on a bookshelf in a little church while going through my first divorce. I fell in love with its encouraging words. Years later, while struggling through my second divorce, I remembered the book and purchased the copy that you see in the photo. This time I have found it under better, happier circumstances. Opening its cover and reading the words for January 21 was like entering a room of smiling friends and being welcomed into their conversation. I am eager to bring my day to a close tonight, sit in the silence of my new bedroom, and &#8220;listen&#8221; to this book again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;) I have been finding so many things that have been &#8220;out of sight, out of mind&#8221; while they were sitting in storage for over a year (mostly books read a long time ago). This is a find that brought back a good feeling as when one remembers an old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,69,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-continuum","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}