{"id":2203,"date":"2021-03-02T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:34:19","slug":"opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/02\/opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Religion provides many opportunities. For a mercifully small, but non-zero number it&#8217;s an opportunity to engage in sexual exploitation. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to enjoy the adulation of the crowd. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to impose their will on other people. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to make money. None of these is the Jesus way  (as we might remember from the temptation story). And so it is that we read in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=73\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a> about Jesus chucking the money-traders out of the Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God of love,<br>save us from the temptations of the Christian life,<br>save us from abusing our power over others.<br>May we all worship you<br>and you alone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheep measling the hillside on another fine morning&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0045.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0045.jpg 784w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0045-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0045-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion provides many opportunities. For a mercifully small, but non-zero number it&#8217;s an opportunity to engage in sexual exploitation. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to enjoy the adulation of the crowd. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to impose their will on other people. For some it&#8217;s an opportunity to make money. None of these is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/02\/opportunities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opportunities&#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-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}