{"id":6538,"date":"2010-11-11T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-4-tv-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6538","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 &#8211; TV (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kate and Storly came over tonight for dinner along with their two sweet little girls.\u00a0 Melissa made a pork roast with pineapple salsa, beer bread and corn casserole.\u00a0 Kate brought the ice cream and cherry pie filling as a topping.\u00a0 (Must be a Welsh thing.)\u00a0  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In conversation tonight we figured out that we first met Kate and Storly exactly two years ago.\u00a0 It was through\u00a0them that God first\u00a0began to call us to Haiti.\u00a0 We got to know them when they started to attend our small group on Friday nights.\u00a0 More recently, Kate led the mission trip when Melissa went in June and Storly led when I went in October.\u00a0 I learned then that Storly is a celebrity in Haiti.\u00a0 He has done programs on Radio 4VEH for years and every Haitian\u00a0seemed to know him, his name and\/or his voice.\u00a0 To say that they are a unique and talented couple is an understatement.\u00a0 (And I will leave it at that since I suspect they will read this blog at some point and I wouldn&#8217;t want their incredible humility to be compromised!) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s more I could say but I&#8217;m getting rather sleepy and I have to report still on the give away of the day:\u00a0 a TV set.\u00a0 A couple of months ago my mom got a new flat screen TV.\u00a0 Her old TV sat in her living room for weeks until I finally got around to loading it into our minivan to bring home with us.\u00a0 We replaced one of our old TVs with mom&#8217;s old TV which meant that it was now <em>our <\/em>old TV&#8217;s turn to sit on the living room floor for another several weeks.\u00a0 Kate and Storly had been wanting to get a TV for their girls to watch in the basement but had decided\u00a0they couldn&#8217;t justify\u00a0purchasing\u00a0a second TV (they&#8217;re not Americans, you see).\u00a0 So, they took our old TV &#8230; problem solved for both of us.\u00a0 Win, win!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/579-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kate suggested I could build the readership for my blog if I would start announcing in advance what I planned to give away.\u00a0 She&#8217;s so <em>clever<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kate and Storly came over tonight for dinner along with their two sweet little girls.\u00a0 Melissa made a pork roast with pineapple salsa, beer bread and corn casserole.\u00a0 Kate brought the ice cream and cherry pie filling as a topping.\u00a0 (Must be a Welsh thing.)\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In conversation tonight we figured out that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6538","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\/6538","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=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}