{"id":1631,"date":"2020-09-23T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:02:40","slug":"raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/09\/23\/raining\/","title":{"rendered":"Raining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/100_3118.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KODAK Digital Still Camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s lovely sun became more fitful, we have rain this morning. I&#8217;ve not so far been for a walk, although yesterday&#8217;s downhills have left me with some aching joints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=161\" target=\"_blank\">Lectionary<\/a> for Sunday, <br><em>&#8220;21:28 &#8220;What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, &#8216;Son, go and work in the vineyard today.&#8217;<br>21:29 He answered, &#8216;I will not&#8217;; but later he changed his mind and went.<br>21:30 The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, &#8216;I go, sir&#8217;; but he did not go.<br>21:31 Which of the two did the will of his father?&#8221; They said, &#8220;The first.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><br>This snippet from Matthew&#8217;s Gospel, admittedly taken out of its context about the relationship between Jesus&#8217; people and Pharisaic Judaism, did raise for me a completely separate question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I want to answer, &#8220;the first&#8221; as well &#8211; but the way the media work in the twenty first century, people are more likely to favour the second son. We love to hear &#8216;all words and no action&#8217; if those words suit our pre-existing beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s lovely sun became more fitful, we have rain this morning. I&#8217;ve not so far been for a walk, although yesterday&#8217;s downhills have left me with some aching joints. From the Lectionary for Sunday, &#8220;21:28 &#8220;What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, &#8216;Son, go and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/09\/23\/raining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raining&#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-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}