{"id":1680,"date":"2020-10-08T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:50:53","slug":"the-quiet-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/08\/the-quiet-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The quiet man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is there something about Ian Duncan-Smith that we don&#8217;t know? Trawling through some photos for the Prayers For Places website, I found this (it was in Hull, hence &#8216;trawling&#8217;)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_8941.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Small note from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=163\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>. Just note that Euodia and Syntyche &#8220;have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel&#8230;&#8221;, according to Paul. That was nearly two thousand years ago. You&#8217;d think that by now women would have equal respect in the work of the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was a lovely morning, but underfoot had the signs of last night&#8217;s heavy rain. The small road I walked down was more a stream, and the flowing water seemed to be spooking the cattle that were trying to cross it.  A woman at an upstairs window of her house was shooing two small calves out of her front garden. When the farmer apologised, she cooed, &#8220;Oh they&#8217;re lovely at that age!&#8221; The stream ended in a puddle at the bottom of the hill, whose escape route I had to unclog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there something about Ian Duncan-Smith that we don&#8217;t know? Trawling through some photos for the Prayers For Places website, I found this (it was in Hull, hence &#8216;trawling&#8217;)&#8230; Small note from Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary. Just note that Euodia and Syntyche &#8220;have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel&#8230;&#8221;, according to Paul. That was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/08\/the-quiet-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The quiet man&#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-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}