{"id":2420,"date":"2021-05-10T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T12:32:43","slug":"long-term-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/10\/long-term-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-term maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Psalm 1 is in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=93\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>. It begins, <em>&#8220;Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s great, but contrary to much experience, in the short term, anyway. Liars win. Mockery gets you friends. We take no interest in doing right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what we see around us is not all there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the air is full of interesting clouds. It&#8217;s dry at the minute, but I suspect that today the weather is best viewed from indoors. I&#8217;ve already been out for a walk and a grocery shop, 13 miles in all. Janet has an outdoor meeting to come this afternoon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God give us faith,<br>to keep going in easy times<br>and hard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 1 is in Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary. It begins, &#8220;Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law they meditate day and night.&#8221; It&#8217;s great, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/10\/long-term-maybe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Long-term maybe?&#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-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}