{"id":1919,"date":"2020-12-10T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2020-12-10T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:22:47","slug":"the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/12\/10\/the-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A walk this morning along the Trail in pleasant weather. Everyone I met today respected the distance limits, which was brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night we watched the first threequarters of Schindler&#8217;s List, which was, as it should be, a difficult watch. It&#8217;s not just the brutality, but also the confusion which makes it hard &#8211; that too must be true to the experience. This is what we people can do to each other, and in such a twisted world even the heroes are compromised. I don&#8217;t want the world to be like that again, and even now people in Europe are trying to work together to avoid another such terrible conflict, or the re-emergence of any such philosophy as Naziism. Except us of course.<br>Perhaps there are people here who think the war was a good thing. (It may for us at the time have been a <em>necessary<\/em> thing, but that&#8217;s different). Most of the people who now see the war as a great moment are people who never experienced it.<br>We now have 35 hours in which to finish the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gracious God, give us peace we pray,<br>a peace in which there is also justice,<br>in which no voice goes unheard,<br>the peace which Christ can give,<br>but not the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk this morning along the Trail in pleasant weather. Everyone I met today respected the distance limits, which was brilliant. Last night we watched the first threequarters of Schindler&#8217;s List, which was, as it should be, a difficult watch. It&#8217;s not just the brutality, but also the confusion which makes it hard &#8211; that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/12\/10\/the-trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trail&#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-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}