{"id":1798,"date":"2009-06-03T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/03\/down-the-stretch-we-come"},"modified":"2009-06-03T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T19:39:00","slug":"down-the-stretch-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Down the stretch we come &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve officially gotten my second wind. Three days to go until the end of our Rotary Group Study Exchange journey through Israel and I am re-energized.<\/p>\n<p>We leave Thursday morning for Jerusalem. The Rotary district we&#8217;ve been visiting, 2490, is having its District conference in Israel&#8217;s capital city. Our team will make its final presentation to a fairly large assembly of Rotary members. Then the official mission is complete. Yes, we&#8217;ll stay on until the end of the conference and we&#8217;ll still acting as ambassadors for West Texas, for our Rotary District 5730 and for the United States. But then the exchange ends on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be left, then, with our memories of what only can be described as a monumental personal experience for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, we have one more exciting chapter awaiting us. Taking a gander at the Spiritual Capital of the Holy Land, the place where our faith has its roots.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve officially gotten my second wind. Three days to go until the end of our Rotary Group Study Exchange journey through Israel and I am re-energized. We leave Thursday morning for Jerusalem. The Rotary district we&#8217;ve been visiting, 2490, is having its District conference in Israel&#8217;s capital city. Our team will make its final presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down the stretch we come &#8230;<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}