{"id":7866,"date":"2016-09-21T00:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2016-09-21T00:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T07:58:18","slug":"five-favourites-miscellanea-lxxv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7866","title":{"rendered":"{five favourites}: Miscellanea (LXXV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/fivefavorites.jpg\" alt=\"#5Faves\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong>One<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Hawkins&#8217; &#8220;Hedge of Protection&#8221; bit.<\/strong>  I have spit coffee out of my nose before when people have prayed for a &#8220;hedge of protection&#8221; for me because of this video.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tim Hawkins - Hedge of Protection\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Le33lZaMOI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Two<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>My boys winning tonight.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s always wonderful when my boys (the San Francisco Giants) annihilate the Dodgers.  #BeatLA<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Three<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>My accounting class.<\/strong>  I hated math. Let me make that more emphatic &#8212; HATED math.  I got through Calculus by the skin of my teeth and swore I would never do anything else involving it once I ran screaming from Organic Chemistry.  My Macroeconomics class in college had a little bit but it was just computation and a little bit of basic algebra.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; I discovered that I loved the accounting work I had to do at <a href=\"http:\/\/ups-scs.com\/\">UPS-SCS<\/a> when I worked for them and all the tax\/records\/reimbursement stuff I did as a pastor&#8217;s wife.  I think it says something that I&#8217;m going to campus on my day off from class to curl up in the library and start my Practical Accounting homework early!<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Four<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>My friend Gina.<\/strong>  Girlfriend wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/themighty.com\/2016\/09\/suicide-and-autism-help-lower-the-suicide-rate-of-autistic-adults\/\">an amazing piece on autism and suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Five<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wrigley (maker of Skittles).<\/strong> Wrigley, maker of Skittles, weighed in today on Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s odious Skittles analogy (which I am not sharing here because I don&#8217;t believe in posting hate on this blog):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s an appropriate analogy. We will respectfully refrain from further commentary as anything we say could be misinterpreted as marketing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, the photographer who took the picture says that he is horrified that Trump Jr. is using the picture for his malevolent purposes because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37421886\">he (the photographer) is a refugee and Trump Jr. used it without his permission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who are ignorant as to why I&#8217;m making a big to-do over this, the origin of the Skittles analogy was a picture book in Germany called <em>Der Giftpilz<\/em> (The Toadstool) which was used to explain to children why it would only take one Jew to ruin the German people.  <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/09\/20\/nazi-who-originated-donald-trump-jr-s-skittles-metaphor-was-hanged-at-nuremberg\/\">The author, Julius Streicher, was hanged at Nuremburg for crimes against humanity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go love up <a href=\"http:\/\/thekoalamom.com\/\" title=\"Bonnie\">Bonnie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babystylista.com\/\">DeBalino<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thekoalamom.com\/2016\/09\/ways-to-make-a-house-your-home\/\" title=\"5 Favourite Ways to Make a House Your Home\">the others<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Tim Hawkins&#8217; &#8220;Hedge of Protection&#8221; bit. I have spit coffee out of my nose before when people have prayed for a &#8220;hedge of protection&#8221; for me because of this video. Two My boys winning tonight. It&#8217;s always wonderful when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,7,17,12,16,18,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-personal-issues","category-politics","category-school","category-sports","category-the-a-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-22S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","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=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}