{"id":455,"date":"2012-03-06T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutlistening.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2020-08-15T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T00:13:22","slug":"the-journey-the-first-part-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/blog\/the-journey-the-first-part-of-the-story","title":{"rendered":"The Journey &#8211; the First Part of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in Dulles airport, at the wrong gate with my computer plugged into the wall, getting a full charge before the stretch over the Atlantic.  I am anxious to get to the right gate.  However, I feel like it&#8217;s important to do an entry in my blog today, since I let friends know that I will be writing here, as best as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of weeks, I have been watching the &#8220;worst possible outcomes&#8221; come and go through my mind, of the work in Palestine.  What if I am not liked as an American?  What if I am detained or kicked out?  What if I am hurt?  Of course, all my loved ones are saying I hope you are okay, which makes me worry even more.  Funny how that works?  I have appreciated all of our refocus on how well this trip will go.  Especially in my own mind.<\/p>\n<p>I find that I that my mind now drifts more to past successes that include elements of conflict issues that I hear that I will be facing on the West Bank.  I have had a lot of successes over the years, and the words &#8220;Trust the Process!&#8221; reasonate through my mind.  This will be a good trip, and will be successful in what ever means that are intended to yield success.  I am ready for the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go to the right gate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in Dulles airport, at the wrong gate with my computer plugged into the wall, getting a full charge before the stretch over the Atlantic. I am anxious to get to the right gate. However, I feel like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/blog\/the-journey-the-first-part-of-the-story\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutlistening.com\/wordpress-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}