{"id":139,"date":"2005-12-31T01:10:56","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T01:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2005-12-31T01:21:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T01:21:54","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/31\/looking-back","title":{"rendered":"Looking back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/usa-2005-week-8-colorado\/Aspen_panorama?full=1\" title=\"Aspens by the roadside\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/usa-2005-week-8-colorado\/Aspen_panorama.sized.jpg\" alt=\"Aspens by the roadside\" title=\"Aspens by the roadside\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So, 2005 is almost over, and it&#8217;s time for a review. The highlight of my year was the time I spent with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnministries.org\/globalministries\/northamerica\/home.htm\">Mike Steele<\/a>, which was relaxing, encouraging and fun. The time changed me; I sense it, and friends have commented on it too. Although the photo above is beautiful&nbsp;&#8211; as are many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/usa-2005\" title=\"USA photos\">photos<\/a> I took in the USA, the photo of the year must be this one:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/colorado-2005-week-6\/p9130359?full=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/albums\/colorado-2005-week-6\/p9130359.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The view from my window at the Steeles' house\" title=\"The view from my window at the Steeles' house\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I took one photo (almost) every morning I was in the US, and most of them looked like that! It was the view from my window at the Steeles&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights: finally making it to <a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-yosemite\">Yosemite<\/a>, discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/california-2005-tahoe-to-yosemite\">Monitor Pass<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bufton.net\/gallery\/usa-2005-week-8-bryce\">Bryce Canyon National Park<\/a>, and the road from Aspen to Colorado Springs via Buena Vista; I took the photo at the top of this entry just after leaving Aspen.<\/p>\n<p>After such a long break, returning to work was tough. I&#8217;m part of a great team, though, which helps. The biggest shock of the year came just after we returned to Switzerland, when our house church ceased. It turned out to be God&#8217;s timing, though! (More details on that next year.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, 2005 is almost over, and it&#8217;s time for a review. The highlight of my year was the time I spent with Mike Steele, which was relaxing, encouraging and fun. The time changed me; I sense it, and friends have commented on it too. Although the photo above is beautiful&nbsp;&#8211; as are many of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/31\/looking-back\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}