{"id":96,"date":"2019-02-08T07:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:54:47","slug":"seeing-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/02\/08\/seeing-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are making progress &#8211; stuff is being sorted, moved to different destinations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC_0241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC_0241.jpg 270w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/DSC_0241-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but it doesn&#8217;t feel like that. There&#8217;s still a lot of clutter, some\u00a0of\u00a0it loved.<\/p>\n<p>My retirement balloon is still buoyant &#8211; a reminder of where we&#8217;re going.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=111\">Sunday&#8217;s three readings<\/a>\u00a0all mention moments of vision, in different ways. What the Bible is less full of is the bits in between, the bits where it&#8217;s harder to see where you&#8217;re going, and you are preoccupied with the demands of the day.<\/p>\n<p>If I had a pound for every time someone told me, &#8220;we keep plodding along&#8221;, I&#8217;d have quite a lot of pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are making progress &#8211; stuff is being sorted, moved to different destinations&#8230; &#8230;but it doesn&#8217;t feel like that. There&#8217;s still a lot of clutter, some\u00a0of\u00a0it loved. My retirement balloon is still buoyant &#8211; a reminder of where we&#8217;re going. Sunday&#8217;s three readings\u00a0all mention moments of vision, in different ways. What the Bible is less &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2019\/02\/08\/seeing-the-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeing the trees&#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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}