{"id":6231,"date":"2023-11-08T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"the-joys-of-car-ownership-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"THE JOYS OF CAR OWNERSHIP PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lesson #4: &#8220;Persist in Prayer&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And her father returned to the park the next morning with a leaf blower and persistent prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after several hours of searching, when he found the one and only key to her cute little VW convertible, he screamed &#8220;Yes!&#8221; and called to a sweet older couple walking close by, &#8220;Rejoice with me for I have found the key which had been lost!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the older couple kindly obliged.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231107_130841-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2544\" height=\"3392\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which in itself, at the metalevel, was an answer to my persistent prayer for the last few months &#8211; &#8220;Lord, teach me how to pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(P.S. It is still a mystery how the key fob fell off the key ring in the first place. There&#8217;s no readily apparent rational explanation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson #4: &#8220;Persist in Prayer&#8221;.\u00a0 And her father returned to the park the next morning with a leaf blower and persistent prayer.\u00a0 And after several hours of searching, when he found the one and only key to her cute little VW convertible, he screamed &#8220;Yes!&#8221; and called to a sweet older couple walking close by, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","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\/6231","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=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6233,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions\/6233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}