{"id":540,"date":"2019-06-27T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2019-06-27T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:57:43","slug":"great-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/27\/great-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Great men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The communities we&#8217;ve seen since we entered Scotland seem to be very fond of celebrating their famous sons and daughters&#8230; Burns, Boswell, Duncan, Keir Hardie&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; well, sons anyway. In those times, men were far more likely to rise to prominence than women. I&#8217;m watching the quarter final of the women&#8217;s football World Cup, and hoping that this century, south west Scotland will have plenty of daughters to celebrate. &#8220;In Christ there is no longer male and female&#8221; &#8211; and the origins of some of these famous people were in Presbyterian Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keir Hardy was someone I remember from school history lessons, a founder of the Labour Party&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0153-e1561664033262-378x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0153-e1561664033262-378x1024.jpg 378w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0153-e1561664033262-111x300.jpg 111w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC_0153-e1561664033262.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be interesting to know whether he made it into the recent book of eminent Victorians &#8211; I kinda doubt it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>God give us each such a measure of the Spirit of Christ<br>that we discover the greatness inside us.\u00a0<br>Help us be kind and respectful to others,<br>that we may help nurture the greatness in them.<br>Teach us, and our society<br>the teachings of Jesus &#8211;<br>forgiveness, new beginnings, love.\u00a0<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communities we&#8217;ve seen since we entered Scotland seem to be very fond of celebrating their famous sons and daughters&#8230; Burns, Boswell, Duncan, Keir Hardie&#8230; &#8230; well, sons anyway. In those times, men were far more likely to rise to prominence than women. I&#8217;m watching the quarter final of the women&#8217;s football World Cup, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/06\/27\/great-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great men&#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-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}