{"id":781,"date":"2012-06-08T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-06-08T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T22:33:47","slug":"in-a-week-my-world-is-being-squeezed-through-a-funnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/2012\/06\/08\/in-a-week-my-world-is-being-squeezed-through-a-funnel\/","title":{"rendered":"In a week; My world is being squeezed through a funnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only eight more days. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"God willing, a week from today, at this time I will be arriving into Amarillo, in the company of my friends Don Taylor and Mel Maresh. \u00a0In the mean time, convergences are wrecking havoc with my nerves.<\/p>\n

Our house closing will not happen on Monday as expected. \u00a0It will, hopefully, happen by Wednesday. \u00a0A bit close for comfort. \u00a0The bank needs to reprocess some papers for the buyers, and with banking hours, this has now been pushed out a day or two more. \u00a0To top this off, I noticed some unusual behavior on the clutch hydraulics of the motorcycle on my way home last night. \u00a0None of the local dealers can look at it until Wednesday. \u00a0Now that is really\u00a0freaky. \u00a0But there is hope. \u00a0A dude from the Two Wheeled Texans bulletin boards gave me the number to a local guy who is a BMW master mechanic. \u00a0I called him. \u00a0Left a message, and had a call back within 15 minutes. \u00a0We are all set up for him to look at the bike on Monday. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0God’s provision indeed. \u00a0In the mean time, I do not think I have butterflies in my stomach. \u00a0Feels more like a ball of maggots.<\/p>\n

Along this drama, we have to reschedule utilities moves, alarm service transfers, unpack the stuff at the new [rental] property, …<\/p>\n

But, in news from the battle on modern day slavery front, I am heartened by the report that Washington State passed a slew of laws aimed at curbing sex and human trafficking in that state. \u00a0This includes stiff penalties for johns, and for traffickers, as well as protection for victims, including cleaning of criminal records for women who can show they have been trafficked. \u00a0This last element is a very difficult one but at least something is in place. \u00a0What was put on hold is the system of laws that the centerpiece of the trafficking reform, which makes it illegal to advertise sex services involving a minor, due to a challenge by Backpage.com since it eats into their lucrative line of escort and sexual services add. \u00a0Way to go backpage. \u00a0NOT. \u00a0More like grow some spine backpage.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can read the full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please keep me in your prayers.<\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only eight more days. \u00a0 God willing, a week from today, at this time I will be arriving into Amarillo, in the company of my friends Don Taylor and Mel Maresh. \u00a0In the mean time, convergences are wrecking havoc with my nerves. Our house closing will not happen on Monday as expected. \u00a0It will, hopefully,… Read More »In a week; My world is being squeezed through a funnel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-33","category-news-and-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2o6Hc-cB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaderiderjourneys.com\/2endslavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}