{"id":1098,"date":"2005-08-12T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulwaters.org\/meditatio\/?page_id=1098"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:41:19","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?page_id=1098","title":{"rendered":"About Me and This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jen and I am a 46 year old blogger living in northern Washington.  I have a 17 year old son named <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?cat=37\">Daniel<\/a> who is the light of my life. I am also the willing servant of a house panther named Minion.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m not chasing <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?cat=37\" title=\"Daniel\">Daniel<\/a>, I enjoy reading anything I can find, listening to a variety of music, singing great classical and sacred works, exploring the area in which I live, finding decent iced vanilla latt\u00e9s, taebo, traveling, crocheting, spending time with my family, cooking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcrossing.com\" title=\"Postcrossing\">Postcrossing<\/a>, and general web geekery.<\/p>\n<p>This site uses <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\" title=\"Wordpress\">WordPress<\/a> and the theme (layout) is Twenty Eleven. The name of the blog comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/luthers-rules-for-how-to-become-a-theologian\">Luther&#8217;s second step in studying Scripture<\/a>.  (The three steps are &#8220;oratio&#8221;, &#8220;meditatio&#8221;, and &#8220;tentatio&#8221;.) The header pic is a view of the Skagit Valley taken from my uncle&#8217;s deck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Jen and I am a 46 year old blogger living in northern Washington. I have a 17 year old son named Daniel who is the light of my life. I am also the willing servant of a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?page_id=1098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1098","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P38xoO-hI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15950,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1098\/revisions\/15950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}