{"id":195,"date":"2019-03-02T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T10:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-03-02T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T15:43:11","slug":"aberystwyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/03\/02\/aberystwyth\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberystwyth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday was St David&#8217;s day. I think my first encounter with the Welsh language was seeing &#8216;Aberystwyth&#8217; on the destination boards on the carriages of trains that went past our house in West Middlesex. I just couldn&#8217;t then work out how it made a word you could say. Fortunately I didn&#8217;t miss out on encountering more of a language with the same dark beauty as shining wet slate. Maybe this&#8217;ll be a retirement project: learn Welsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Aberystwyth, nice place, sea relatively benign so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=116\">Lectionary<\/a>&#8230; Psalm 99&#8230; When God doesn&#8217;t seem to be in charge so much, is just saying &#8220;the Lord is king&#8221; enough? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was St David&#8217;s day. I think my first encounter with the Welsh language was seeing &#8216;Aberystwyth&#8217; on the destination boards on the carriages of trains that went past our house in West Middlesex. I just couldn&#8217;t then work out how it made a word you could say. Fortunately I didn&#8217;t miss out on encountering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/03\/02\/aberystwyth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aberystwyth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}