{"id":30736,"date":"2018-07-04T00:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T00:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30736"},"modified":"2018-07-04T00:58:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T00:58:56","slug":"time-to-pray-for-a-stranded-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30736","title":{"rendered":"Time to pray for a stranded soccer team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s bow our heads and pray.<\/p>\n

A dozen boys and their coach need the world’s prayers. They are stranded deep in a sprawling cave in Thailand.<\/p>\n

How they got stuck in the case, trapped by raging flood water, is almost moot at this point. A team of British divers found the boys alive and apparently in reasonably good health. None of them has suffered any serious injury.<\/p>\n

They are hungry. They haven’t eaten in about a week.<\/p>\n

But this story is going to get dicey quickly.<\/p>\n

According to NPR.com<\/a>, the Thai government is predicting stormy weather that could impede rescue efforts. The word we’re getting is that the boys and their coach might need to dive their way out; they’ll have to don SCUBA gear and swim to safety.<\/p>\n

It’s a treacherous procedure, according to reports. I understand none of the boys can swim. They’ve never dived before. They’ll be accompanied by expert divers.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to grasp the terror in these boys’ minds as they know they’ve been found, but that it might be weeks before they are able to escape their entrapment.<\/p>\n

They need nourishment to be sure.<\/p>\n

They also need the world’s prayers. I’m sending them all the good karma I can muster up.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s bow our heads and pray. A dozen boys and their coach need the world’s prayers. They are stranded deep in a sprawling cave in Thailand. How they got stuck in the case, trapped by raging flood water, is almost moot at this point. A team of British divers found the boys alive and apparently … Continue reading Time to pray for a stranded soccer team<\/span> →<\/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":[5],"tags":[3341,5666],"class_list":["post-30736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-npr","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736","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=30736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30738,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736\/revisions\/30738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}