{"id":554,"date":"2009-04-06T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-04-06T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:35:00","slug":"competition-runs-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Competition Runs In the Family&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdqitNLTxdI\/AAAAAAAABiQ\/o36pqsIICKg\/s1600-h\/Picture+3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 137px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdqitNLTxdI\/AAAAAAAABiQ\/o36pqsIICKg\/s400\/Picture+3.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321744807206569426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My brother is a fellow blogger.  I love reading his blog (<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">www.wonderingaboutgod.blogspot.com<\/span>).  Over the last few years his blog has made me laugh as well as shocked me. I have learned a lot about him and his thoughts over the years.  He is the inspiration for my own blog.<\/p>\n<p>November 5, 2008 his stat counter (how many times your blog has been read) hit the 1000th time.  He was excited.  I was envious.  <\/p>\n<p>Today he called me, annoyed, apparently.  He commented on my stat counter&#8230; it is at 1000 already!    He is jealous.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I am flattered and appreciative to whoever reads my blog.  Thank you for taking time and energy to do so&#8230; if for no other reason than to have this moment with my brother.<\/p>\n<p>He told me that his goal is to be at least a few ahead of me.  Hum&#8230; no doubt he will pay or bribe his congregation to read his blog to achieve this.  lol<\/p>\n<p>I am only blogging this because apparently he is going to blog this too.  Not sure what version he will write so I thought I&#8217;d better write the truth somewhere on cyber space.<\/p>\n<p>I love my brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother is a fellow blogger. I love reading his blog (www.wonderingaboutgod.blogspot.com). Over the last few years his blog has made me laugh as well as shocked me. I have learned a lot about him and his thoughts over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}