{"id":6883,"date":"2016-04-20T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:23:06","slug":"god-and-the-deli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6883","title":{"rendered":"God and the Deli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning right or left, I never know where one encounters the presence of God.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days ago, while picking up a few items at a delightful deli, a spry and stylish woman hugged the nearby proprietor and said <em>&#8220;I keep praying to God that it is time to take me, so that I can be with my husband&#8221;.  &#8220;I am now 90&#8221;<\/em>. (<em>didn&#8217;t look it<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My daughter recently put together a surprise birthday party.  Grandchildren and neighbors were all in the know.&#8221;   &#8220;It was so much fun. It was a blessing.  But, I miss my husband.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More hugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning right or left, I never know where one encounters the presence of God. Just a few days ago, while picking up a few items at a delightful deli, a spry and stylish woman hugged the nearby proprietor and said &#8220;I keep praying to God that it is time to take me, so that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}