{"id":961,"date":"2011-02-28T12:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","slug":"day-9-a-picture-of-the-person-who-has-gotten-you-through-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/day-9-a-picture-of-the-person-who-has-gotten-you-through-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: a picture of the person who has gotten you through the most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be lovely, and cheesy, to put up a large flowery picture of JESUS.<\/p>\n<p>However, while I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s true, I&#8217;m not one of those people who has always felt him there like a numinous cloud hovering behind my left shoulder, offering support and reassurance. I&#8217;m very much a footprints-in-the-sand type of guy, often inferring his presence only when I look back at a single trail of footprints and realise we must have both been hopping.<\/p>\n<p>Or however the poem goes.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, here is the agent Jesus chooses to use. I give you: Old Father Time.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JG_i_KraMPU\/TWtc_DiGGUI\/AAAAAAAABUM\/Eq7ysyt6_kg\/s1600\/09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578654801778317634\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JG_i_KraMPU\/TWtc_DiGGUI\/AAAAAAAABUM\/Eq7ysyt6_kg\/s400\/09.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>So often, I&#8217;ve got through things simply by putting my head and down and being aware that the sun will still come up tomorrow and This Too Shall Pass. Even when &#8220;this&#8221; is a cricket game, which admittedly gives the impression of being able to slow down the advent of sunrise by some considerable degree.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be lovely, and cheesy, to put up a large flowery picture of JESUS. However, while I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s true, I&#8217;m not one of those people who has always felt him there like a numinous cloud hovering behind my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/day-9-a-picture-of-the-person-who-has-gotten-you-through-the-most\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[84],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-30-day-photo-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}