{"id":2927,"date":"2021-10-05T17:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:32:44","slug":"you-who-trample-on-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/10\/05\/you-who-trample-on-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;you who trample on the poor&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hard to know what to say about the Amos reading in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\/texts.php?id=223\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>. Just read it, then read it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only did Amos have the unpopular message of God&#8217;s concern for people in poverty, he was also a foreigner &#8211; doubly hated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;as are many who say similar things today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC_0699.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC_0699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC_0699-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DSC_0699-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>&#8230;nice stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to know what to say about the Amos reading in Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary. Just read it, then read it again. Not only did Amos have the unpopular message of God&#8217;s concern for people in poverty, he was also a foreigner &#8211; doubly hated. &#8230;as are many who say similar things today.<\/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-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}