{"id":217,"date":"2005-02-10T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2005-02-10T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:58:00","slug":"the-lord-works-in-mysterious-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in fate (or Fate, however you like it), to some extent. I think things happen (or don&#8217;t happen) because something else is waiting to unfold. There have been things I&#8217;ve wanted in my life, jobs, relationships &#8211; that didn&#8217;t pan out. I think on both of those fronts, I needed to wait and meet JWo, which is why I didn&#8217;t get that glamorous job in San Francisco, and moved to Kansas City, instead. So, for some time, JWo has expressed his desire to own a Bowflex, and we started discussing it again this month, what with a tax refund on the horizon, and the fact they sell them that at the other powerful force in my life, CostCo. <\/p>\n<p>So when we got home on Monday night, remember, that half-priced drink night? We&#8217;d run to CostCo first, for recordable DVDs they don&#8217;t sell, and other stuff we immediately needed &#8211; and as we exited, we were handed the Joyous Sheet of Coupons, and later that night we discovered the message being sent to us: $150 off a BowFlex. Next week. See? I am meant to have the body of a 50-year-old grandmother. Can you believe it? I&#8217;m still reeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in fate (or Fate, however you like it), to some extent. I think things happen (or don&#8217;t happen) because something else is waiting to unfold. There have been things I&#8217;ve wanted in my life, jobs, relationships &#8211; that didn&#8217;t pan out. I think on both of those fronts, I needed to wait and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}