{"id":3147,"date":"2021-12-10T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:17:48","slug":"hooray-for-the-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/12\/10\/hooray-for-the-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for the underdogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tiny bit from the prophet Zephaniah in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=97\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>&#8230;<em>&#8220;And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.&#8221;<\/em> Who are the lame and the outcast? Maybe it is the whole, small, beleaguered nation. Maybe it could also be individual people. Does it matter? Maybe not, because I can believe that God cares about the outsiders and those who are weak in whatever context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was a day of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cumulonimbus_incus\" target=\"_blank\">cumulonimbus capillatus incus<\/a>. Except maybe the capillatus incus bits were often more like candyfloss hair (non-pink of course) than anvils. Also they didn&#8217;t go very high &#8211; it was freezing quite near the ground. So just <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cumulonimbus_capillatus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cumulonimbus capillatus<\/a> maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tiny bit from the prophet Zephaniah in Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary&#8230;&#8220;And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.&#8221; Who are the lame and the outcast? Maybe it is the whole, small, beleaguered nation. Maybe it could also be individual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/12\/10\/hooray-for-the-underdogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hooray for the underdogs?&#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-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","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=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}