{"id":183,"date":"2012-10-15T04:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-10-19T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:53:25","slug":"foreign-exchange-week-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/10\/15\/foreign-exchange-week-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Exchange week begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new master cylinder leaks.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll be going back to the shop on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I officially met the new pastor candidate, and then my family picked up our foreign exchange students.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re overwhelmed by America and by us.\u00a0 They spent Saturday hiding from us in the corner of a room.\u00a0 We even had some of their friends over, which they enjoyed, but once their friends left, they went back to hiding.\u00a0 They were also pushing boundaries, which I didn\u2019t expect.\u00a0 These two (unlike last year\u2019s two) are a little less mature and a lot less outgoing.\u00a0 I get the feeling that neither one is used to many rules or restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, we all went to church, which went fine, then everyone but me went to the Redwoods.\u00a0 Our two exchange students liked that, but from what I understand, they are pretty out of shape.<\/p>\n<p>The car went back to the shop on Monday.\u00a0 I tried to do homework, but was overwhelmed by the amount of work I had to get done.\u00a0 I concentrated on two projects, but didn\u2019t finish either one.\u00a0 This is OK because neither is due tonight, though one is due on Wednesday.\u00a0 I have to get that one done by Wednesday because it&#8217;s a presentation for class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new master cylinder leaks.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll be going back to the shop on Monday. On Saturday, I officially met the new pastor candidate, and then my family picked up our foreign exchange students.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re overwhelmed by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2012\/10\/15\/foreign-exchange-week-begins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}