{"id":3528,"date":"2014-03-07T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2014-03-06T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:53:22","slug":"phillistines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"PHILLISTINES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who know me know that I like to use memory aids (mnemonic devices) in order to recall various things. \u00a0Years ago, I came up with the name &#8220;Gage&#8221; (pronounced\/emphasized with a long a for the two &#8220;a&#8221; cities) to remember the five cities of the Phillistines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This past Wednesday evening, I was reviewing various things and up came the five cities (Gath, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron) of the Phillistines. \u00a0I laughed because the very next day I was having lunch with my dear friend Cliff Wilson, who is a pilot for Southwest. \u00a0It turns out that Cliff&#8217;s son is named Gage (pictured below). Does he look like a Phillistine to you? \u00a0I think not!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 21px;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #ff4b33; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrownshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_8958-copy-e1343697357337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1237 aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 840px; clear: both; line-height: 18px; text-align: center; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 6px;\" title=\"IMG_8958 copy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebrownshed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_8958-copy-e1343697357337.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Those who know me know that I like to use memory aids (mnemonic devices) in order to recall various things. \u00a0Years ago, I came up with the name &#8220;Gage&#8221; (pronounced\/emphasized with a long a for the two &#8220;a&#8221; cities) to remember the five cities of the Phillistines. This past Wednesday evening, I was reviewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}