{"id":1757,"date":"2020-10-25T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2020-10-25T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:24:38","slug":"copout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/25\/copout\/","title":{"rendered":"Copout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In<em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=167\" target=\"_blank\">next<\/a><\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=167\" target=\"_blank\"> Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, Jesus says (according to Matthew&#8217;s gospel), <em>&#8220;The greatest among you will be your servant.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More in due course, I expect, but for the time being, just think about that. How would things be if we took that seriously, especially those of us already in power? It&#8217;s not a fragment of Scripture to be quoted from a position of power at somebody who has none, saying &#8220;be humble, bow down&#8221;, while being unhumble oneself. A bit Pharisaical, that would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, Jesus says (according to Matthew&#8217;s gospel), &#8220;The greatest among you will be your servant.&#8221; More in due course, I expect, but for the time being, just think about that. How would things be if we took that seriously, especially those of us already in power? It&#8217;s not a fragment of Scripture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/10\/25\/copout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Copout&#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-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","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=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}