{"id":3299,"date":"2022-02-01T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:51:12","slug":"clumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/01\/clumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1220.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1220.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1220-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_1220-768x488.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the story of these trees, but it must go back a long way. People who deal with trees have to take the long view, maybe beyond their lifetimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith can give us a way to set our actions in a bigger context and to take the longer view. The end of the Psalm 138 reading in <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a> speaks  of the love of God which &#8216;endures forever&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know the story of these trees, but it must go back a long way. People who deal with trees have to take the long view, maybe beyond their lifetimes. Faith can give us a way to set our actions in a bigger context and to take the longer view. The end of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/01\/clumps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clumps&#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-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}