{"id":147,"date":"2013-01-01T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:37:45","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"First Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/about-me-3\/twitter-image-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/twitter-image.jpg?resize=174%2C168\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-130\" alt=\"twitter image\" width=\"174\" height=\"168\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bark of any tree &#8211; oak, ash, or gopher, is what the world sees.&nbsp; Here I intend to make visible to the eye my occasional thoughts.&nbsp; This is probably not the medium for things of real weight and substance but I hope that what appears will not be merely superficial&nbsp; &#8211; on the surface but not superfical.<\/p>\n<p>Gopher wood is what Noah was instructed to use as the principal material in constructing the ark.&nbsp; The name of this site takes its inspiration from that amazing history from the ancient world.&nbsp; The account in Genesis speaks to us of God, Christ, judgment and salvation, life and education &#8211; pretty much everything that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bark of any tree &#8211; oak, ash, or gopher, is what the world sees.&nbsp; Here I intend to make visible to the eye my occasional thoughts.&nbsp; This is probably not the medium for things of real weight and substance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2d1Zf-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}