{"id":404,"date":"2019-05-26T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2019-05-26T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T20:24:33","slug":"a-mixed-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/05\/26\/a-mixed-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A mixed day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the weather got better, the walking got harder. It began by a canal, and ended with a traipse up the A49 to the giant Sainsburys near Bamber Bridge. It was time to try out the restorative properties of ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a walk of light and shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was another Sunday of walking for Janet and helping out for me. I&#8217;m not sure I miss church in the same way I thought I would. But now since retirement, church would be a different thing anyway, and will be when Janet&#8217;s walk finishes. I don&#8217;t miss God, because God is working in everything around me. Maybe there&#8217;s something to be done in enabling worship outside those buildings, not just in the forest or in cafes, but everywhere, maybe the twenty first century equivalents of first century Galilee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s still important that church is community too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise thee.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also discover today that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plogging\">plogging<\/a> is a thing. One of our companions on the End to End a while ago also did this, at walking pace. Perhaps I was ahead of my time forty-odd years ago when I used to do guerilla litter-picking on my morning walk to work through Hulme. What grows little by little can surely also be taken away little by little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather got better, the walking got harder. It began by a canal, and ended with a traipse up the A49 to the giant Sainsburys near Bamber Bridge. It was time to try out the restorative properties of ice cream. This is a walk of light and shade. It was another Sunday of walking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/05\/26\/a-mixed-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A mixed day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}