{"id":2168,"date":"2021-08-18T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"blissfully-unaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"BLISSFULLY UNAWARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week is particularly painful as I get notifications from Google photos and Facebook about &#8220;memories&#8221; from years past.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years, mid-August was our usual timetable for returning to Haiti to start a new school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 20019, we were watching Caleb&#8217;s freshman class &#8220;ringing in&#8221; ceremony from our kitchen in Haiti.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20190817_130255-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20180817_084336963_HDR-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_20170817_070310_408-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"921\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20160816_115907-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20150818_071348-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there was LAST YEAR. August 17, 2020. I was hanging out with my old seminary pal, Tim, at a campground in Illinois, blissfully unaware that an email I had just sent out was going to set off a firestorm of anger and panic within our sending organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is particularly painful as I get notifications from Google photos and Facebook about &#8220;memories&#8221; from years past. For many years, mid-August was our usual timetable for returning to Haiti to start a new school year.\u00a0 In 20019, we were watching Caleb&#8217;s freshman class &#8220;ringing in&#8221; ceremony from our kitchen in Haiti.\u00a0 And then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}