{"id":1065,"date":"2020-04-01T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2020-04-01T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:34:23","slug":"it-wont-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/01\/it-wont-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"It won&#8217;t rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the tons of other stuff on our wall unit, we have five tiny pottery houses, all roughly the same shape and size.<br>I put them in a row.<br>Janet noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-15857366558005140183197668402102-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to make bread. The dough will not rise. Maybe I killed the yeast (or the five years after its Best Before date did for it). I&#8217;ll give it another hour or two, then I&#8217;ll flatten it and we&#8217;ll go as if it were unleavened. Maybe sometimes some natural processes just are, like the Spirit of God, untameable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still persist in believing that God is good. However, the &#8216;invisible hand&#8217; isn&#8217;t. There&#8217;s no profit to be had in planning for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Living God,<br>Christ crucified,<br>we pray for those who put their lives on the line<br>so that others may live;<br>especially, now, workers in health and care.<br>God save them, we pray.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the tons of other stuff on our wall unit, we have five tiny pottery houses, all roughly the same shape and size.I put them in a row.Janet noticed. I&#8217;ve been trying to make bread. The dough will not rise. Maybe I killed the yeast (or the five years after its Best Before date did &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/01\/it-wont-rise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It won&#8217;t rise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}