{"id":4806,"date":"2017-10-31T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2017-10-31T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T10:04:45","slug":"thom-and-noranne-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/10\/31\/thom-and-noranne-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom and Noranne are here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our good buddies from college days, Thom and Noranne Skaanland, are with us for about a week.\u00a0 It is so fun to catch up with all that&#8217;s going on in our lives, and especially wonderful to see improvement in Noranne after her massive injury bicycle accident a few years ago.\u00a0 Sorry to say Roy and Thom have had terrible cold\/flu this week, but somehow they&#8217;ve managed to see village work.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/blog-T-n-N.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4808\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/blog-T-n-N.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/blog-T-n-N.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/blog-T-n-N-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Now we&#8217;ve been without internet for some time, so Thom and Noranne are gone and Paul and Sheryl Noren are here with us!\u00a0 Again, precious times with dear friends.\u00a0 Thanks for your prayers for safe travels for all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=4806&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good buddies from college days, Thom and Noranne Skaanland, are with us for about a week.\u00a0 It is so fun to catch up with all that&#8217;s going on in our lives, and especially wonderful to see improvement in Noranne &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/10\/31\/thom-and-noranne-are-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thom and Noranne are here! 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