{"id":469,"date":"2019-06-18T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T18:33:58","slug":"past-annan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/18\/past-annan\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Annan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was one of those cold-hot days, with sunny periods and a brisk unhelpful wind. Such days are often quite hard for the walker. The traffic on the straight sections of the B road was also unhelpful. But Janet made it through Annan and out the other side, heading towards the valley of the Nith as a route north westwards. Some of the local footpaths were flooded, although this part of the island didn&#8217;t see the worst of the recent rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, in the car, we made a brief visit to Robert the Bruce&#8217;s cave&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"737\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190618_192536-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190618_192536-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190618_192536-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190618_192536-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190618_192536.jpg 2045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Supposedly a spider taught him the value of perseverance. And this cave is one of several that lay claim to be the site of this revelation. Anyway, maybe perseverance is overrated &#8211; for instance some churches may have to find new cultural forms in which to live as the &#8220;body of Christ&#8221;, rather than doing the same old thing all the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was one of those cold-hot days, with sunny periods and a brisk unhelpful wind. Such days are often quite hard for the walker. The traffic on the straight sections of the B road was also unhelpful. But Janet made it through Annan and out the other side, heading towards the valley of the Nith &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/18\/past-annan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past Annan&#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-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}