{"id":1365,"date":"2020-07-01T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:35:04","slug":"here-comes-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/07\/01\/here-comes-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here it comes now. Also there were dry intervals on this morning&#8217;s walk. When the rain came though, it was enough to rattle audibly the leaves above my head. The wind is gentle. I am glad there are ways I can go which are quiet, but broad enough to pass people at 2m plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=149\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, Matthew 11:16-19, it seems that Jesus can&#8217;t win. People are eternally dissatisfied. This must be quite a common experience for parents, teachers, bosses, politicians. We moan about dishonesty, but in the end we can&#8217;t take too much honesty, and we&#8217;d rather be looked after by someone who&#8217;ll tickle our ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God we pray for integrity,<br>honesty, care, justice, mercy<br>to be in our heads whenever<br>we make our cross on the ballot paper.<br>We confess that we have sometimes been<br>selfish in our decisions.<br>God forgive us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it comes now. Also there were dry intervals on this morning&#8217;s walk. When the rain came though, it was enough to rattle audibly the leaves above my head. The wind is gentle. I am glad there are ways I can go which are quiet, but broad enough to pass people at 2m plus. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/07\/01\/here-comes-the-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here comes the sun&#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-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}