{"id":64,"date":"2002-08-22T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T05:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/08\/22\/how-god-uses-search-engines\/"},"modified":"2002-08-22T21:33:33","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T05:33:33","slug":"how-god-uses-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/22\/how-god-uses-search-engines","title":{"rendered":"How God Uses Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paula_and_aleen_small.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/paula_and_aleen_small.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br>\n<i>the fol\u00adlow\u00ading is a rough para\u00adphrase of a very cool encounter that occured just hours ago<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The scene: I\u2019m sit\u00adting at my desk, think\u00ading about what to put on our web site when I receive a phone call:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi\u2013my name is Aileen, I\u2019m a stu\u00addent at Stan\u00adford and I live in Oak Creek. I saw your web\u00adsite and had some ques\u00adtions about Chi Alpha. It looks like you believe in being filled with the Holy Spir\u00adit. Do you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201cWow. <i>[long con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, skip a lot of stuff]<\/i> How did you come across our web\u00adsite?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Aileen: \u201cI did a search for Oak Creek Apart\u00adments and your web\u00adsite came up.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The bot\u00adtom line: we wound up invit\u00ading Aileen (a Sin\u00adga\u00adpore\u00adan Ph. D. stu\u00addent study\u00ading the biol\u00ado\u00adgy of can\u00adcer) over for sup\u00adper. We had a great time!<\/p>\n<p>God is con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading to arrange divine appoint\u00adments for us to facil\u00adi\u00adtate min\u00adistry among the stu\u00addents at Stan\u00adford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which God uses a search engine to con\u00adnect us with a stu\u00addent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}