{"id":2383,"date":"2021-04-30T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:44:06","slug":"one-christmas-reminiscence-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/30\/one-christmas-reminiscence-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"One Christmas. &#8230;reminiscence warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was a new minister, one morning shortly before Christmas, I found a bottle of wine on my doorstep. It was from a local firm of undertakers. It made me feel deeply uncomfortable, and I couldn&#8217;t wait to put it in a raffle to get rid of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it seems that people in positions of influence gladly, even eagerly, accept gifts from those who would persuade them. It&#8217;s a different world. Maybe it always has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a new minister, one morning shortly before Christmas, I found a bottle of wine on my doorstep. It was from a local firm of undertakers. It made me feel deeply uncomfortable, and I couldn&#8217;t wait to put it in a raffle to get rid of it. Now it seems that people in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/04\/30\/one-christmas-reminiscence-warning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Christmas. &#8230;reminiscence warning!&#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-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}