{"id":7440,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-advantage-of-florida\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:46","slug":"the-advantage-of-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-advantage-of-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advantage of Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased an old home in Northern New York State from two elderly sisters.  Winter was fast approaching and I was concerned about the house&#8217;s lack of insulation.  \u201cIf they could live here all those years, so can we!\u201d my husband confidently declared.<\/p>\n<p>One November night the temperature plunged to below zero, and we woke up to find interior walls covered with frost.  My husband called the sisters to ask how they had kept the house warm.  After a rather brief conversation, he hung up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 30 years,\u201d he muttered, \u201cthey&#8217;ve gone to Florida for the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Source: Chapnotes,  http:\/\/www.chaplainsnotes.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased an old home in Northern New York State from two elderly sisters. Winter was fast approaching and I was concerned about the house&#8217;s lack of insulation. \u201cIf they could live here all those years, so can we!\u201d my husband confidently declared. One November night the temperature plunged to below zero, and we woke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4971,1617,4094],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}