{"id":2400,"date":"2009-10-13T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2009-10-13T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T00:17:55","slug":"my-philosophy-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/10\/13\/my-philosophy-of-rain","title":{"rendered":"My Philosophy of&nbsp;Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/40206389@N00\/2391958054\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2276\/2391958054_e4e681c4b8_m.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"rainclouds\" title=\"Ken Keirns (K2) &amp; Sonny\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\"><\/a>It is raining right now in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been raining all&nbsp;day.<\/p>\n<p>This is rare, and it understandably confuses Stanford students. They came to Stanford because they thought all of California was San Diego. That and because Stanford is awesome. But the San Diego thing was definitely a tipping factor. Rain is not featured prominently in the Stanford recruiting materials.<\/p>\n<p>In situations like this some people contemplate skipping Bible study (you know who you&nbsp;are).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought I should take this opportunity to clarify my position on rain: Bible studies do not get canceled on account of rain. That\u2019s baseball. And picnics. But not Bible studies.<\/p>\n<p>And you should not skip Bible studies because it is raining. Show up wet. That\u2019s why we baptize you. So you\u2019ll learn not to fear water.  And if you haven\u2019t been baptized, <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/bible-studies\/\">come to Bible study<\/a> and kill two birds with one&nbsp;stone.<\/p>\n<p>And as for our <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/meetings\/\">weekly meeting<\/a>\u2026 don\u2019t even think about it. We\u2019ll have that one even if Jesus tells me the Rapture is scheduled for 7:35pm on a Wednesday. I figure those who are left behind will have something to talk about in our absence.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 yeah. That\u2019s what I have to say about&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is raining right now in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been raining all&nbsp;day. This is rare, and it understandably confuses Stanford students. They came to Stanford because they thought all of California was San Diego. That and because Stanford is awesome. But the San Diego thing was definitely a tipping factor. Rain \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/10\/13\/my-philosophy-of-rain\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMy Philosophy of&nbsp;Rain\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-CI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}