{"id":5,"date":"2011-05-13T19:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplechara.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-06-01T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:31:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_03511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-653\" src=\"http:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_03511-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_03511-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_03511-775x1024.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Chara &#8211; <\/em>the Greek word for &#8220;joy&#8221; &#8211; is a virtue that is often found lacking in our world today. And yet amidst all the chaos, many simple, yet profound, joys can still be found in our everyday lives &#8211; <em>especially<\/em> as children of God! As someone who loves the Lord with all my heart and wants to share His goodness with as many people as possible, I&#8217;m passionate about living a Godly, joy-filled life and about sharing that abundant joy with those around me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So that&#8217;s me, Layo: a Texas-born traveller that loves staring at clouds; a music lover that&#8217;s trying to learn guitar, keep up my French, and smuggle a little Spanish in there too; and a daughter of God that enjoys sharing His wonders with everyone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hope you&#8217;ll join me on this joyous adventure, and I hope that everything written or posted here is able to offer just a little bit of lighthearted encouragement your way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Ps 16: 11<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chara &#8211; the Greek word for &#8220;joy&#8221; &#8211; is a virtue that is often found lacking in our world today. And yet amidst all the chaos, many simple, yet profound, joys can still be found in our everyday lives &#8211; especially as children of God! As someone who loves the Lord with all my heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}