{"id":2406,"date":"2021-05-06T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:32:42","slug":"protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/06\/protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0117.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0117.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0117-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0117-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Trees of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another cold day with the high sun blazing down &#8211; and one or two showers later. Time will tell whether my lack of head protection will have any consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=91\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, in 1 John&#8230; <em>&#8220;Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.&#8221;<\/em> On the whole, great, but not understanding Greek, I don&#8217;t know what the second half of the sentence means. Is the writer arguing that because everyone who loves a parent loves their child, we should love Jesus? Yes we should love Jesus &#8211; but it&#8217;s not true that everyone who loves a parent loves their children! It seems to be going to the right place but by a funny route. It&#8217;s like the Pentecost story when the disciples were filled with the Spirit of God &#8230; These people are not drunk as you suppose, because it&#8217;s only nine o&#8217;clock in the morning. Being drunk at nine o&#8217;clock in the morning is quite a frequent occurrence in some places I can think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, so is a beautiful but late spring &#8211; a frequent occurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although many ash trees look as though the leaves may never arrive. Although it doesn&#8217;t have the same human consequences as COVID, ash dieback is creating it&#8217;s own kind of devastation in the landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another cold day with the high sun blazing down &#8211; and one or two showers later. Time will tell whether my lack of head protection will have any consequences. From Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, in 1 John&#8230; &#8220;Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/06\/protection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protection&#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-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}