{"id":374,"date":"2014-06-27T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-09-09T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:53:43","slug":"five-minute-friday-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/five-minute-friday-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Friday: Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s Friday. We write. \u00a05 minutes. That is all. There&#8217;s a whole group of us that write.<a href=\"http:\/\/lisajobaker.com\/five-minute-friday\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Today&#8217;s prompt:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">LOST<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lost and found. Forever lost. Forever found.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lost is a black hole in my mind. Lost love, lost homes, lost time, lost things, lost memories. They all seem to find themselves down that hole like Alice falling into the White Rabbit&#8217;s Hole. Forever falling; never arriving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;ve lost more things than I can count. Most of the time things lost are insignificant. However, there are some things that just disappear and no matter how much you look or how long you look or how often you look- they just can&#8217;t be found. There&#8217;s a sadness attached, a sort of undying hope that one day&#8230; perhaps. But no.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I was like one of those lost things, forever falling, never arriving. \u00a0Until. Amazing Grace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><span style=\"line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">But by the grace<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0of God I am what I am, and his grace to me<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0was not without effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>1 Corinthians 15:10a<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday. We write. \u00a05 minutes. That is all. There&#8217;s a whole group of us that write. Today&#8217;s prompt: LOST Lost and found. Forever lost. Forever found.\u00a0 Lost is a black hole in my mind. Lost love, lost homes, lost time, lost things, lost memories. They all seem to find themselves down that hole like &#8230; <a title=\"Five Minute Friday: Lost\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/five-minute-friday-lost\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Five Minute Friday: Lost\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[96,84,118,116,117,93],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-minute-fridays","tag-5minute-fridays","tag-fmf","tag-found","tag-grace","tag-lost","tag-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}