{"id":2025,"date":"2010-05-07T06:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:02:17","slug":"why-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/05\/why-dr.html","title":{"rendered":"Why DR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DR_Z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/2010\/05\/DR_Z-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaturnersblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/meeting-our-juan.html\">Yesterday, we met our Dominican Republic <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/content.nsf\/pages\/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;CL=0159&amp;CST&amp;Campaign=1110120\">sponsor  child,<\/a> Juan.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, could you not just eat him up?<\/p>\n<p>World Vision threw a huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/content.nsf\/pages\/bloggers-sponsor-a-child?open&amp;CL=0159&amp;CST&amp;Campaign=1110120\">child  sponsorship<\/a> party, where we met our sponsor kids and many of yours  too! 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