{"id":1801,"date":"2020-02-20T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2020-02-17T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:30:31","slug":"thats-what-we-signed-up-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1801","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s what I signed up for!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1798\">compassion<\/a>, and here is a concrete example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John and Ginnie are friends of ours, about our age, and live in Virginia. Ginnie has Parkinson\u2019s and can\u2019t get around without a wheelchair. John, until recently, had been involved in diplomatic activities at the very highest level. They frequently spent months in Vienna on assignment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now he mostly takes care of her. They still travel, but, of course, John is completely responsible for all the logistics. When June told John in a recent phone conversation with both of them that we greatly admire his patience with, and love for, Ginnie, John cheerfully replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That\u2019s what I signed up for!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That will preach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. (Ephesians 5.25, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been thinking about compassion, and here is a concrete example. John and Ginnie are friends of ours, about our age, and live in Virginia. Ginnie has Parkinson\u2019s and can\u2019t get around without a wheelchair. John, until recently, had been involved in diplomatic activities at the very highest level. They frequently spent months in Vienna &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;That&#8217;s what I signed up for!&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-t3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}