{"id":6488,"date":"2020-10-30T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T23:30:45","slug":"you-can-take-the-boy-out-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2020\/10\/30\/you-can-take-the-boy-out-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"You can take the boy out of Africa&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/blog-take-the-boy-out-of-Africa...grubs_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6471\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/blog-take-the-boy-out-of-Africa...grubs_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/blog-take-the-boy-out-of-Africa...grubs_.jpg 337w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/blog-take-the-boy-out-of-Africa...grubs_-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can take the boy out of Africa, but you can\u2019t take Africa out of the boy!!\u00a0 Roy has been super busy clearing trees from the yard, and he found these grubs thriving inside the rotting wood, just like in Africa.\u00a0 He was going to fry them up and eat them, but he hasn\u2019t quite gotten around to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=6488&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can take the boy out of Africa, but you can\u2019t take Africa out of the boy!!\u00a0 Roy has been super busy clearing trees from the yard, and he found these grubs thriving inside the rotting wood, just like in &hellip; 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