{"id":1258,"date":"2020-05-24T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2020-05-24T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T10:38:16","slug":"not-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/05\/24\/not-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Not pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A walk to the old quarry this morning, followed by zoom church. The walk wasn&#8217;t particularly pretty, it being a gloomy morning with some bits of rain and a wind that was still blustery, and with this to negotiate on the path up&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1017.jpg 682w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1017-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but it was great just to be there anyway, and fun walking&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1018.jpg 756w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1018-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and this lifted my heart on the outwards walk&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1014.jpg 864w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1014-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DSC_1014-768x813.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the wind, gloom and dampness, but they conspire to make it harder to take pictures &#8211; the gloom means a longer exposure and the phone is less forgiving of a shaking hand, and the wind makes your hand shake more anyway, and the dampness may also cause mistiness, either because of direct exposure or because everything&#8217;s inside a sweaty cagoule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Creator God, we praise you<br>for the gloom and drizzle,<br>that annoying, inseparable part<br>of your wonderful universe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk to the old quarry this morning, followed by zoom church. The walk wasn&#8217;t particularly pretty, it being a gloomy morning with some bits of rain and a wind that was still blustery, and with this to negotiate on the path up&#8230; &#8230;but it was great just to be there anyway, and fun walking&#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/05\/24\/not-pretty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not pretty&#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-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}