{"id":3654,"date":"2025-04-13T06:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2025-04-13T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T11:32:18","slug":"reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/04\/reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early last Thursday and drove four hours to attend my Reagan High School class 65th reunion. No surprise! We met in a Bar B.Q restaurant in north Houston.\u00a0\u00a0Some things never change. Speaking of change, some of my friends had changed so much, they didn\u2019t recognize me. Actually, \u00a0when I walked into the room, I thought I had mistakenly found the tour group for Branson. Man! Some of these folks looked old. Resembled the stock market, with grains and losses &#8211; gained weight and lost hair.\u00a0\u00a0Questions flooded my mind.\u00a0\u00a0Was he really on the same baseball team as me?\u00a0\u00a0What about basketball?\u00a0 Did I actually date her?\u00a0\u00a0It was difficult to date anyone back then.\u00a0\u00a0My extremely conservative Southern Baptist parents forbid me from dating anyone but Baptist girls.\u00a0\u00a0It was hard to get a date when my first pick-up line was, \u201cExcuse me, but are you Baptist?\u201d A few of my favorite reunion lines (not necessarily from last Thursday\u2019s reunion):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you ever get a real job?<\/li>\n<li>Is this your daughter?<\/li>\n<li>So which weight loss program are you on?<\/li>\n<li>I thought you were dead.<\/li>\n<li>What happened to you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I left early, while the reunion was still going on.\u00a0\u00a0Long drive back home.\u00a0\u00a0Besides, you can\u2019t soar with the eagles, if you insist on hooting with the owls.\u00a0\u00a0I did find a biblical basis for such activities.\u00a0\u00a0The Apostle Paul had been away from his friends in Philippi for several years when he wrote to them, \u201cI long for you\u201d (Philippines 1:8).\u00a0\u00a0I really did want to see my old friends, enough to get up early and drive the distance.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m glad I attended the reunion.\u00a0\u00a0It was good to re-new friendships.\u00a0\u00a0Fun to be in a group where so many sentences began with, \u201cDo you remember . . .\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m sad for those who are no longer with us.\u00a0\u00a0There were about 30 of us last Thursday out of a class of 714.\u00a0 Looking forward to the next reunion, although there will likely be even fewer of us.\u00a0\u00a0I guess we can find a smaller, more intimate Bar B.Q. place where we could meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early last Thursday and drove four hours to attend my Reagan High School class 65th reunion. No surprise! We met in a Bar B.Q restaurant in north Houston.\u00a0\u00a0Some things never change. Speaking of change, some of my friends had changed so much, they didn\u2019t recognize me. Actually, \u00a0when I walked into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}