{"id":1431,"date":"2018-02-01T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-02-01T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T13:31:50","slug":"blog-february-1st-the-portsmouth-gospel-choir-in-concert-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Blog February 1st &#8211; The Portsmouth Gospel Choir In Concert Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1431-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ken-Shearsmith-You-must-surely-love-this-The...-fbdown.net_.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ken-Shearsmith-You-must-surely-love-this-The...-fbdown.net_.mp4\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ken-Shearsmith-You-must-surely-love-this-The...-fbdown.net_.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>So this week\u2019s blog has three parts 1) Promotion 2) Humour 3) Quotation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Promotion <\/strong>-:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/PGCconcert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en-GB&amp;q=http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/PGCconcert&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1517578267278000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGS1WKa4YKBU0MAQerFB5HgY8qDnA\">www.tinyurl.com\/PGCconcert<\/a> for tickets and details of what will be a great night with the Portsmouth Gospel Choir in concert (see featured pic and video) With special guests C.J. Edwards from \u201cThe Voice\u201d and members of the cast of Risen! The Musical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Humour:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you noticed how fairly ordinary terms are now being \u201cjazzed up\u201d into things humorously pretentious? Yesterday I laughed when told that the receptionist at my doctor\u2019s surgery was now a \u201ccare navigator.\u201d However my favourite is \u201cwater transfer solutions\u201d which is a hosepipe manufacturer!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quotation<\/strong> from Theodor Roosevelt:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stubbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this week\u2019s blog has three parts 1) Promotion 2) Humour 3) Quotation Promotion -: Please visit www.tinyurl.com\/PGCconcert for tickets and details of what will be a great night with the Portsmouth Gospel Choir in concert (see featured pic and video) With special guests C.J. Edwards from \u201cThe Voice\u201d and members of the cast of [&hellip;]<\/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-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}