{"id":2599,"date":"2021-06-24T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2021-06-24T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:14:15","slug":"do-we-believe-those-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/06\/24\/do-we-believe-those-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we believe those tears?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=208\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, <em>&#8220;David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.&#8221;<\/em> Really? Was he really so gutted, when he stood to gain from this? I&#8217;d like to think that he was &#8211; but maybe that&#8217;s naive, and his lament is nothing more than news\/history management. Or maybe it&#8217;s more complicated, and he was genuinely sad at the same time as he moved gently into power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_0292-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_0292-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_0292-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_0292-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/DSC_0292.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Nothing lasts for ever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, &#8220;David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.&#8221; Really? Was he really so gutted, when he stood to gain from this? I&#8217;d like to think that he was &#8211; but maybe that&#8217;s naive, and his lament is nothing more than news\/history management. Or maybe it&#8217;s more complicated, and he was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/06\/24\/do-we-believe-those-tears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we believe those tears?&#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-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","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=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}