{"id":1725,"date":"2020-10-14T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2020-10-14T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:52:10","slug":"moseses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/14\/moseses\/","title":{"rendered":"Moseses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another ordinary day. Took the car in for MOT this morning, so I&#8217;m hoping there won&#8217;t be anything too remarkable about the day. Walked some of the same paths I did yesterday, but none of the spectacular mists today &#8211; altogether much more mundane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=164\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Old Testament reading<\/a>, we read about Moses&#8217; bargaining with God. This kind of inner dialogue is quite slippery to understand, but one of the things that comes across to me is Moses&#8217; doubts and need for assurance. Someone who may also have experienced God&#8217;s presence (probably aided by a head injury) was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harriet_Tubman\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Tubman<\/a>, nicknamed &#8216;Moses&#8217;, who conducted 70 enslaved people to freedom. I mentioned the film about her on 11th October. She couldn&#8217;t have done what she did without experiencing fear and doubt. But she overcame those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another ordinary day. Took the car in for MOT this morning, so I&#8217;m hoping there won&#8217;t be anything too remarkable about the day. Walked some of the same paths I did yesterday, but none of the spectacular mists today &#8211; altogether much more mundane. In Sunday&#8217;s Old Testament reading, we read about Moses&#8217; bargaining with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/14\/moseses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moseses&#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-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}