{"id":1849,"date":"2020-11-19T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T11:44:30","slug":"my-faith-it-is-a-metal-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/19\/my-faith-it-is-a-metal-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"My faith it is a metal staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been wet overnight and the trail had many puddles. I tried to give an escape route to one puddle, but only succeeded in bending my stick. So that&#8217;s both sticks that now won&#8217;t telescope. However, I reckon I can swap parts so that I end up with one that telescopes and one that doesn&#8217;t. By the time I was walking, the clearance had come&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637-1024x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637-1536x764.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC_1637.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=170\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary <\/a>includes Jesus&#8217; story about people being separated like a shepherd separates sheep from goats (they must have had quite complex flocks in those days). I think I need to come back to the raw straightforwardness of <em>&#8220;&#8230;for I was hungry and you gave me food&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> Maybe I should stop trying to overcomplicate things and just listen to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been wet overnight and the trail had many puddles. I tried to give an escape route to one puddle, but only succeeded in bending my stick. So that&#8217;s both sticks that now won&#8217;t telescope. However, I reckon I can swap parts so that I end up with one that telescopes and one that doesn&#8217;t. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/19\/my-faith-it-is-a-metal-staff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My faith it is a metal staff&#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-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}