{"id":592,"date":"2004-01-30T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=592"},"modified":"2004-01-30T00:08:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-30T05:08:43","slug":"if-only-friday-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If Only&#8230;&#8221; Friday Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>You have just won one million dollars:<\/p>\n<p>1. Who do you call first?<\/b><br \/>\nMy parents or Jon&#8217;s parents<\/p>\n<p><b>2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?<\/b><br \/>\nI&#8217;d pay off our student loans and any other debt before buying anything.  Then, I&#8217;d probably buy a car.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?<\/b><br \/>\nMaybe would pay off the mortgages for my parents and in-laws.<\/p>\n<p><b>4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?<\/b><br \/>\nOur churches, various charities like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstationfoundation.org\">Union Station Foundation<\/a>, Save the Children, Habitat for Humanity, start a fund for the poor in our part of Minnesota, donate to AIDS research, AIDS education, create scholarships for women MTS students at my seminary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Do you invest any? If so, how?<\/b><br \/>\nNot sure.  I&#8217;d have to talk to a financial planner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have just won one million dollars: 1. Who do you call first? My parents or Jon&#8217;s parents 2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? I&#8217;d pay off our student loans and any other debt before buying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=592\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-link-ups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-9y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}