{"id":1883,"date":"2020-11-30T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:38:52","slug":"variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/30\/variation\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cloud  was still low this morning, but had an encouraging variation in darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-55125802\">the rumours<\/a> are true that Philip Green and has family have abstracted a ten-figure sum from Arcadia, how is that even legal? It crosses my mind that we need more regulation, not less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=49\" target=\"_blank\">Lectionary for Sunday<\/a> includes Isaiah 40, starting&#8230; <em>&#8220;Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s been a long, hard road, a punishing time, and relief is coming. God has made a promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God of love,<br>we need comforting,<br>we need strengthening.<br>We are tired of all this<br>and we need hope.<br>As the first glimmer of Advent light<br>begins to grow,<br>as the clouds lighten,<br>as the wind rises,<br>we place our hope in you,<br>and get ready to welcome<br>your chosen one.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud was still low this morning, but had an encouraging variation in darkness. If the rumours are true that Philip Green and has family have abstracted a ten-figure sum from Arcadia, how is that even legal? It crosses my mind that we need more regulation, not less. The Lectionary for Sunday includes Isaiah 40, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/30\/variation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Variation&#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-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","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=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}