{"id":520,"date":"2017-03-20T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp-royal-themes.com\/themes\/ashe-free\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T23:03:52","slug":"believe-in-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Believe in Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">While on assignment for the Church magazines in Taiwan, I was traveling with an interpreter and a driver.\u00a0 Though I still had hours of work to do, my interpreter needed to leave me alone with the driver, who didn&#8217;t speak any English.\u00a0 There was no way I could finish my work without being able to communicate with the driver.\u00a0 As they discussed options, my interpreter began to laugh.\u00a0 He explained that the driver spoke Spanish, which he knew I had learned on my mission.\u00a0 The driver and I had a great time together, and I finished my work without any problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">This was no dramatic healing or moving of a mountain, but it was divine intervention that my driver was one of the relatively few people in Taiwan who spoke Spanish.<\/span><\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on assignment for the Church magazines in Taiwan, I was traveling with an interpreter and a driver.\u00a0 Though I still had hours of work to do, my interpreter needed to leave me alone with the driver, who didn&#8217;t speak any English.\u00a0 There was no way I could finish my work without being able to communicate with the driver.\u00a0 As they discussed options, my interpreter began to laugh.\u00a0 He explained that the driver spoke Spanish, which he knew I had learned on my mission.\u00a0 The driver and I had a great time together, and I finished my work without any problem. This was no dramatic healing or moving of a mountain, but it was divine intervention that my driver was one of the relatively few people in Taiwan who spoke Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,44,42,40,41],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-blessings","tag-fingerprints-of-god","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-miracles","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}