{"id":2078,"date":"2013-03-09T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2013-03-09T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T22:45:20","slug":"patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Numbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Numbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Numbers\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Numbers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Numbers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The Call: Counting Down &#151; Cheryl<\/h6>\n<p>Dennis and I are working hard to pay off our mortgage. After converting our 30-year to a 15-year, we converted our 15-year to a 10-year. It should be killed in just about seven years. We&#8217;re making great progress, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to be patient when we think about the freedom we&#8217;re striving to attain. (Of course, we might not think it about quite so often, if the balance wasn&#8217;t displayed on the refrigerator \u2014 but it is nice to see that number steadily going down.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/patience.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/patience.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Danny\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/patience.png 800w, https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/patience-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The Response: Lucky Number Seven &mdash; Jessica <\/h6>\n<p>I used to think that I had six kids because God knew that I needed lots of practice to get the patience thing down. But I still had to room to learn and so I was given Danny. <\/p>\n<p>And now I think I finally get it. Patience is more than just attempting to stay calm while the storm is raging around you and you&#8217;re doing your best to swallow all the frustration and annoyance. Patience is also giving others the room to develop along their own timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Danny is still not crawling. But he&#8217;s close. He&#8217;ll get there and when he does, we&#8217;ll celebrate. And look forward to the next milestone. <\/p>\n<p>He is really teaching me to live in the present and the present contains a well of patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Call: Counting Down &#151; Cheryl Dennis and I are working hard to pay off our mortgage. After converting our 30-year to a 15-year, we converted our 15-year to a 10-year. It should be killed in just about seven years. We&#8217;re making great progress, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to be patient when we think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[744,198,745],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-magnetic-numbers","tag-motherhood","tag-paying-off-a-mortgage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2D42d-patience","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}