{"id":3112,"date":"2021-11-30T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2021-11-30T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T07:13:02","slug":"yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/11\/30\/yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1019.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1019-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1019-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Snowy morning yesterday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\/texts.php?id=96\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, this start to the deuterocanonical Baruch reading, <em>&#8220;5:1 Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.&#8221;<\/em> Of course what is inside mattters a lot, but don&#8217;t underestimate the influence of what clothes we wear. Changing our clothes can be a powerful symbolic action. Elsewhere, Paul invites his readers to <em>&#8220;put on the Lord Jesus Christ&#8221; (Romans 13:14) <\/em>and uses the same metaphor in a number of places. His hope is that what we &#8216;put on&#8217; will influence what&#8217;s inside us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, it&#8217;s Advent: get ready to put on your glad rags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, this start to the deuterocanonical Baruch reading, &#8220;5:1 Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.&#8221; Of course what is inside mattters a lot, but don&#8217;t underestimate the influence of what clothes we wear. Changing our clothes can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/11\/30\/yesterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yesterday&#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-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}