{"id":3505,"date":"2022-04-04T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:45:16","slug":"worshipped-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/04\/worshipped-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Worshipped for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3506\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3506\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC_1267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC_1267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DSC_1267-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainy and damp here today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In<a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph and on a donkey, matching the Old Testament prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>The people like it at the time, a messiah, fulfilling the prophecy, a great leader of a glorious people. But many will turn against him very soon, not least because he won&#8217;t flatter them &#8211; he won&#8217;t peddle the &#8216;great nation&#8217; myth. He will speak the truth to power.<\/p>\n<p>We humans love to think we are a great nation. I wait to see if that myth will persist in Russia after the soldiers have come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph and on a donkey, matching the Old Testament prophecy. The people like it at the time, a messiah, fulfilling the prophecy, a great leader of a glorious people. But many will turn against him very soon, not least because he won&#8217;t flatter them &#8211; he won&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/04\/worshipped-for-a-while\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worshipped for a while&#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-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}