{"id":2325,"date":"2021-04-09T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T09:49:46","slug":"the-haunting-sound-of-past-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/09\/the-haunting-sound-of-past-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"The haunting sound of past holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nice to hear a couple of curlews today &#8211; an evocative sound. Now I&#8217;m back there&#8217;s some blue sky between the little showers. Someone saw roe deer on a hillside: I don&#8217;t usually see them unless they cross the Trail in front of me, which doesn&#8217;t usually happen unless I&#8217;m out before the first dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=87\" target=\"_blank\">the Lectionary<\/a>, Psalm 133 no doubt refers to a serious ceremony of anointing &#8211; but with the oil getting everywhere it reads like abundance and fun and the abandonment of restraint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-56684571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Belfast the trouble continues<\/a>. The decisions we make have consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please pray for the peace of Northern Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice to hear a couple of curlews today &#8211; an evocative sound. Now I&#8217;m back there&#8217;s some blue sky between the little showers. Someone saw roe deer on a hillside: I don&#8217;t usually see them unless they cross the Trail in front of me, which doesn&#8217;t usually happen unless I&#8217;m out before the first dog. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/09\/the-haunting-sound-of-past-holidays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The haunting sound of past holidays&#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-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}