{"id":2364,"date":"2021-04-24T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2021-04-24T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:39:41","slug":"good-shepherds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/24\/good-shepherds\/","title":{"rendered":"Good shepherds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a quick note from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=89\" target=\"_blank\">tomorrow&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>&#8230; Jesus announces himself as &#8216;the Good Shepherd&#8217;. The prophets of old in the Hebrew scriptures had criticised the national leaders for being rubbish shepherds. Jesus himself criticised the religious leaders of his day. Being a bad shepherd is not about incompetence, so much as a lack of commitment to the people (and to God). But the clue is in the name &#8216;shepherd&#8217; &#8211; Jesus is the leader who <em>really<\/em> cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note from tomorrow&#8217;s lectionary&#8230; Jesus announces himself as &#8216;the Good Shepherd&#8217;. The prophets of old in the Hebrew scriptures had criticised the national leaders for being rubbish shepherds. Jesus himself criticised the religious leaders of his day. Being a bad shepherd is not about incompetence, so much as a lack of commitment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/24\/good-shepherds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good shepherds&#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-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","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=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}