{"id":3468,"date":"2022-03-22T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:30:04","slug":"national-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/22\/national-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"National Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No pictures today, as I am confined for a while, having tested positive for COVID.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, the Joshua reading is about settling down in the new land. <em>&#8220;The LORD said to Joshua, &#8220;Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; The idea of a national disgrace can be powerful, even dangerous. It is said by some that Putin&#8217;s motivation for his violent imperialism is a sense of disgrace over what happened three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>If you overuse the word &#8216;disgrace&#8217; you may run out of things to say when confronted by a real disgrace. The state of the European cheese market springs to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No pictures today, as I am confined for a while, having tested positive for COVID. In Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, the Joshua reading is about settling down in the new land. &#8220;The LORD said to Joshua, &#8220;Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.&#8221;&#8221; &#8230; The idea of a national disgrace can be powerful, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/03\/22\/national-disgrace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Disgrace&#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-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}