{"id":2975,"date":"2021-10-19T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:33:41","slug":"dozy-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/10\/19\/dozy-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozy afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I seem to make more mistakes when I am tired. Apologies for getting the name of Old House Farm wrong yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=225\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, I find it hard to integrate the ending of the Job story into my worldview. After all the suffering and heartache and pleading and &#8230; <em>stuff<\/em>, there&#8217;s a happy ending in which Job has his wealth restored and more (he has to  concede that God&#8217;s the boss first). It&#8217;s just that in my experience there&#8217;s a lot of people who just don&#8217;t get a happy ending <em>of that kind<\/em>. It&#8217;s been suggested that the beginning and end of Job belong together, maybe as an even more ancient story, and the middle bit, the meat, the part to which I can relate, was authored separately. Anyway, there you go &#8211; a work in progress in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jeremiah reading speaks of an emotional homecoming. It may not have to be a literal homecoming. I recall the feeling of worshipping for the first time in retirement at a new church. It wasn&#8217;t even the same denomination &#8211; but for some reason it felt like a homecoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to make more mistakes when I am tired. Apologies for getting the name of Old House Farm wrong yesterday. Meanwhile, with Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, I find it hard to integrate the ending of the Job story into my worldview. After all the suffering and heartache and pleading and &#8230; stuff, there&#8217;s a happy ending &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/10\/19\/dozy-afternoon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dozy afternoon&#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-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}