{"id":1124,"date":"2012-08-28T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2012-08-28T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T10:42:30","slug":"a-special-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-special-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"A special visitor…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We welcome quite a few visitors to Thistle Hill, but mostly they’re looking for a bull or heifer or curious about where their meat\u00a0is raised.\u00a0 Unique then to have a guest who just wanted to get into a tractor.\u00a0 But what an interesting guest!<\/p>\n

He’s\u00a0Rev. Hayden Vaverfek, who grew up on a farm in Michigan and fondly remembers the little red Farmall.\u00a0 Father Hayden had no problem taking over the controls of our big Deere and tooling around the pasture.<\/p>\n

But the interesting part:\u00a0 the padre’s assignment is to help Catholic churches in the Mideast.\u00a0 As you know, Christians have been subjected to everything from prejudice to brutality and execution in that troubled area.\u00a0 In Iraq, an area supposedly protected by our enlightened values (sarcasm) there are 70% fewer Christians than just a few years ago.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to know more about Father Hayden’s work you can go to www.cnewa.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We welcome quite a few visitors to Thistle Hill, but mostly they’re looking for a bull or heifer or curious about where their meat\u00a0is raised.\u00a0 Unique then to have a guest who just wanted to get into a tractor.\u00a0 But what an interesting guest! He’s\u00a0Rev. Hayden Vaverfek, who grew up on a farm in Michigan and fondly remembers the little red Farmall.\u00a0 Father Hayden had no problem taking over the controls of our big Deere and tooling around the pasture. But the interesting part:\u00a0 the padre’s assignment is to help Catholic churches in the Mideast.\u00a0 As you know, Christians have been subjected to everything from prejudice to brutality and execution in that troubled area.\u00a0 In Iraq, an area supposedly protected by our enlightened values (sarcasm) there are 70% fewer Christians than just a few years ago. If you’d like to know more about Father Hayden’s work you can go to www.cnewa.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}