{"id":1483,"date":"2014-09-25T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2014-09-25T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:57:30","slug":"non-progredi-est-regredi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/non-progredi-est-regredi\/","title":{"rendered":"Non Progredi est Regredi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1485\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1485\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1485\" alt=\"This is the level of the water that we found in our field this morning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-level-of-the-water-that-we-found-in-our-field-this-morning-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-level-of-the-water-that-we-found-in-our-field-this-morning-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-level-of-the-water-that-we-found-in-our-field-this-morning.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the level of the water that we found in our newly planted field this morning after last night&#8217;s deluge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo not go forward is to go backward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last evening I had no more than hit the \u201cpublish\u201d button on the blog when the rains began again. Torrential rains fell all throughout the night and when Javier and I rolled up our pant legs and slogged barefooted through the muck this morning we found total devastation to a large section of the field that we have been struggling so hard to salvage.<\/p>\n<p>We would appreciate your prayers. Farming is fickle at best, and in the tropics it is an absolute balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>We are placing it all aside for a couple of days so that things can dry out a little. There is no point in struggling as long as the continued rains keep washing away every forward step that we make &#8211; non progredi est regredi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1484\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1484\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1484\" alt=\"This is the devastation that we saw this morning after the most recent night of rain. Notice the seed cane piled up along the sides of the furrows which have become streams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-devastation-that-we-saw-this-morning-after-the-most-recent-night-of-rain.-Notice-the-seed-cane-piled-up-along-the-sides-of-the-furrows-which-have-become-streams-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-devastation-that-we-saw-this-morning-after-the-most-recent-night-of-rain.-Notice-the-seed-cane-piled-up-along-the-sides-of-the-furrows-which-have-become-streams-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/This-is-the-devastation-that-we-saw-this-morning-after-the-most-recent-night-of-rain.-Notice-the-seed-cane-piled-up-along-the-sides-of-the-furrows-which-have-become-streams.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The devastation that we found this morning. Notice the seed cane piled up along the sides of the furrows which have now become streams<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you want to take a peak at some recent shots of this year\u2019s attempted planting click onto the large red \u201cNew Photos\u201d button at the top of the page. I will post them into a file called \u201cPlanting 2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your prayers through a rather discouraging phase of the journey.<\/p>\n<p>With our love,<\/p>\n<p>Steven and Theresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo not go forward is to go backward\u201d. Last evening I had no more than hit the \u201cpublish\u201d button on the blog when the rains began again. Torrential rains fell all throughout the night and when Javier and I rolled up our pant legs and slogged barefooted through the muck this morning we found total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitwministries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}