{"id":3536,"date":"2022-04-11T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:20:50","slug":"losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/11\/losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3537\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3537\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1836-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">deer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3538\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3538\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1865.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1865-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">deer crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3539\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3539\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1889.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_1889-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">jay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today&#8217;s lectionary (Monday of Holy Week)<\/a>, we remember the nature of Jesus, reflecting the prophecy of Isaiah;- <em>&#8220;a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This goes against the ruthless, brutal culture of 21st century capitalism, whose message is more like &#8220;crush the losers&#8221;. I believe that Christianity is a faith for losers; Alleluia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s lectionary (Monday of Holy Week), we remember the nature of Jesus, reflecting the prophecy of Isaiah;- &#8220;a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.&#8221; This goes against the ruthless, brutal culture of 21st century capitalism, whose message is more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/04\/11\/losers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Losers&#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-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","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=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}