{"id":68,"date":"2019-02-03T08:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T08:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T08:58:37","slug":"no-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/02\/03\/no-water\/","title":{"rendered":"No water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no water here this morning. I take encouragement from the fact that United Utilities&#8217; website is down and that it takes at least a few minutes* for someone to answer the phone: they must be getting the message multiple times**.<\/p>\n<p>I kinda miss it, water.<\/p>\n<p>All those water metaphors in the Bible come to life that bit more when you haven&#8217;t got any.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon is the inaugural service of the Huddersfield Group of churches. It&#8217;s not that difficult to leave it alone: nevertheless I shall pray for them.<\/p>\n<p>(* the point at which I gave up)<\/p>\n<p>(**&#8230;or they&#8217;ve been subjected to a DoS attack)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no water here this morning. I take encouragement from the fact that United Utilities&#8217; website is down and that it takes at least a few minutes* for someone to answer the phone: they must be getting the message multiple times**. I kinda miss it, water. All those water metaphors in the Bible come to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/02\/03\/no-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}