{"id":9891,"date":"2017-01-25T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:28","slug":"hows-your-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9891","title":{"rendered":"HOW&#8217;S YOUR CONFIDENCE?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a double-take and then had to snap a picture of this sight on a side street not far from our house while I was on a morning run a few days ago.Haitians often decorate their passenger vehicles with slogans in Creole or French &#8211; &#8220;The Blood of Jesus&#8221;, &#8220;Only God&#8221;, etc. My single year of college French from 30 years ago aided me in recognizing the meaning behind this once boldly painted inscription of &#8220;CONFIANCE EN DIEU&#8221;.Yup, &#8220;Confidence in God&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170115_082957-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20170115_083011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a double-take and then had to snap a picture of this sight on a side street not far from our house while I was on a morning run a few days ago.Haitians often decorate their passenger vehicles with slogans in Creole or French &#8211; &#8220;The Blood of Jesus&#8221;, &#8220;Only God&#8221;, etc. My single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9891","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\/9891","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=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}