{"id":3415,"date":"2022-03-09T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:36:11","slug":"presbyopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/09\/presbyopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyopia makes it harder to sew a button on my trousers, especially if button, trousers and thread are all black. But the headtorch I usually take for winter pre-dawn walks makes all the difference &#8211; it&#8217;s much easier again!<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, people tell Jesus, <em>&#8220;Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; and that all seems like a different world, far away from comfortable Europe. But it now crosses my mind, not so far away after all.<\/p>\n<p>This was the world of Jesus &#8211; oppression and violence. And in<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> such<\/em><\/span> a world, he called people to love and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyopia makes it harder to sew a button on my trousers, especially if button, trousers and thread are all black. But the headtorch I usually take for winter pre-dawn walks makes all the difference &#8211; it&#8217;s much easier again! In Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, people tell Jesus, &#8220;Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/09\/presbyopia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Presbyopia&#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-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}