{"id":486,"date":"2019-06-20T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2019-06-20T20:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:41:50","slug":"going-north-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/20\/going-north-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Going north again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The roads are now getting quieter on the whole, and this is good. There are many straight roads today, as there were yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/longroad-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/longroad.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/longroad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/longroad-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KODAK Digital Still Camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but now they are going more north again. We have left behind the Solway shore and the distant presence of what may or may not be Skiddaw, a reminder of England, that blighted, third rate little nation, and the one I love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/skiddaw-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/skiddaw.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/skiddaw-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/skiddaw-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>KODAK Digital Still Camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Janet continues to walk well and deal well with impatient me, hoping to get done before the showers build up. I met Janet in the midlle of her morning&#8217;s walk, at the excellent Drummuir ice cream farm. One of us (I&#8217;ll not say who) has now had five scoops of ice cream in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janet is much heartened by the news that the hand cyclist she saw a couple of days ago has now completed her journey in record time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a day off tomorrow, and the break will be welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God bless all who walk the roads of earth,<br>going to work, looking for work,&nbsp;<br>seeing family, saving family from persecution,<br>walking for fun, walking to achieve, walking in pain.&nbsp;<br>Walk with us, as we walk with Christ.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice cumulus I just saw&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0416-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-489\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roads are now getting quieter on the whole, and this is good. There are many straight roads today, as there were yesterday&#8230; &#8230;but now they are going more north again. We have left behind the Solway shore and the distant presence of what may or may not be Skiddaw, a reminder of England, that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/20\/going-north-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going north again&#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-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}