{"id":16278,"date":"2015-05-07T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:21:31","slug":"love-in-action-shoes-that-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2015\/05\/07\/love-in-action-shoes-that-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in Action: Shoes that Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/358\/2015\/05\/shoe-that-grows.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16279\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/358\/2015\/05\/shoe-that-grows-300x122.png\" alt=\"shoe that grows\" width=\"462\" height=\"188\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">But what if you can\u2019t buy a new pair of shoes for your growing child? What if your child must go barefoot, or cut the toes out of shoes that are too small? And what if your child walks miles every day to get to school, and what if he is constantly picking up diseases and parasites through the inevitable cuts and scrapes on his feet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/simcha-fisher\/love-in-action-shoes-that-grow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the rest at the Register.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshoethatgrows.org\/the-shoe.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Image via The Shoe that Grows<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what if you can\u2019t buy a new pair of shoes for your growing child? What if your child must go barefoot, or cut the toes out of shoes that are too small? 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