{"id":1370,"date":"2020-07-03T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2020-07-03T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T08:40:30","slug":"a-dry-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/07\/03\/a-dry-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A dry start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t raining when I set off this morning, though that didn&#8217;t last. The cloud was not too low. Valehouse Reservoir may be gaining a bit now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not looking forward to tomorrow. Wouldn&#8217;t a weekday be a better day to start with the pubs, and iron out the problems? Besides which, why choose that date &#8211; who wants to remember a day of national humiliation? I find myself wishing Angela Merkel, or Nicola Sturgeon, or Jacinda Ardern were in charge of my country (notice any connection?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re getting more points for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/PFP\/\">Prayers for Places website<\/a> &#8211; we can get the points in then go back over the prayers later to improve them. This is my lockdown project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God save the souls of all<br>the bored children, bored adults,<br>who are struggling with confinement;<br>and people for whom confinement<br>is normal life.<br>God protect those who have to mingle to do essential tasks,<br>and all who struggle with the discipline<br>of keeping their distance.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t raining when I set off this morning, though that didn&#8217;t last. The cloud was not too low. Valehouse Reservoir may be gaining a bit now. I&#8217;m not looking forward to tomorrow. Wouldn&#8217;t a weekday be a better day to start with the pubs, and iron out the problems? Besides which, why choose that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/07\/03\/a-dry-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A dry start&#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-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}