{"id":1824,"date":"2020-11-12T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2020-11-12T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:11:21","slug":"mending-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/12\/mending-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending fences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I went out this morning, I discovered one of our fence panels lying on the pavement. I wedged it back in with a couple of pieces of rotting found wood, which will do for a while. But the underlying problem is an enthusiastic bay tree next to it. I often favour the temporary fix over addressing the underlying problem. That can be for another day. Glad I&#8217;m not running a country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=169\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, the Judges reading, we see the shadow of &#8216;industrial warfare&#8217; as known in the twentieth century. The Canaanites&#8217; commander lived in &#8216;<em>Harosheth-ha-goiim<\/em>&#8216;, which according to Wikipedia means &#8216;<em>Smithy of the Nations<\/em>&#8216;. Can you imagine what such a place would be like?The heat and the hammering, making instruments of war. &#8216;<em>The Nations<\/em>&#8216;, the &#8216;<em>goyyim<\/em>&#8216;, were those peoples not of Israel. And the Israelites were justifiably afraid of nine hundred chariots of iron. War was a constant reality in those days. Maybe the Israelites weren&#8217;t so well armed, but they had their faith, and they had Deborah the prophet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went out this morning, I discovered one of our fence panels lying on the pavement. I wedged it back in with a couple of pieces of rotting found wood, which will do for a while. But the underlying problem is an enthusiastic bay tree next to it. I often favour the temporary fix &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/12\/mending-fences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mending fences&#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-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}