{"id":432,"date":"2008-02-24T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=432"},"modified":"2008-02-24T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T01:11:00","slug":"absorbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/absorbing\/","title":{"rendered":"absorbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was taking pictures of our shoe and sock distribution this week, a grade 1 boy&#8217;s zipper was all busted up and his penis was in full view. It was both funny and sad.<\/p>\n<p>I brought a team to a sinkhole\/cave where Maya ceremonies are performed and a priest suspended a live chicken over his fire where it was burned alive. It was shocking. He chanted and recited for about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>With the same team we visted several families. We prayed for each family. A man wept when we blessed him as a father &#8211; he works far from home to provide for his family. A fatherless boy wept as we prayed for him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/piedra.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I bought a 66\u00a2 rock that I thought was jade. It turns out to be a <i>piedra de rayo<\/i> or <i>lightning rock<\/i> (my neighbour Walter explained it to me. The Mayans believe that a rock comes with a lightning bolt and splits a tree. Too bad it wasn&#8217;t jade.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women we visited, a widowed mother of three of our students, asked me to help her with some health problems. She showed me a test result form for some diseases she was tested for: Syphilis &#8211; Positive. Ouch. I filled her prescriptions this afternoon from our clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was taking pictures of our shoe and sock distribution this week, a grade 1 boy&#8217;s zipper was all busted up and his penis was in full view. It was both funny and sad. I brought a team to a sinkhole\/cave where Maya ceremonies are performed and a priest suspended a live chicken over &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/absorbing\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-432","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-guatemala","10":"category-health","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}