{"id":2472,"date":"2021-10-28T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:56:19","slug":"blog-october-28th-the-cross-jewellery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Blog October 28th \u2013 The Cross \u2013 Jewellery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/cross-Jewerly-2-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/cross-Jewerly-2-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/cross-Jewerly-2.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2472-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Love-Is-Patient-Love-Is-Kind-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Love-Is-Patient-Love-Is-Kind-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Love-Is-Patient-Love-Is-Kind-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Love is Patient, Love is Kind from the album Love is the Way featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard &#8211; recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson<\/p>\n<p>I was one of the countless people in front of my tv screen cheering on Emma Raducanu to victory in the recent US Woman\u2019s Tennis Open. I have to say I was less than impressed when she ditched her coach \u2013 but that\u2019s another story.<br \/>\nI noticed Emma was wearing a cross around her neck while she was playing- I could not find anything to suggest she was a Christian but I did hope she was. I then noticed in a later interview in which she was glamorously dressed that a large gold neckless and not a Cross adorned her neck. This made me wonder if she had just worn the cross when playing as a piece of jewellery rather than as a statement of faith.<br \/>\nThis reminded me of the story of a young woman that went into a Jewellery shop and asked the shop assistant if she could see their range of crosses. When the assistant returned with a number of them, the young woman exclaimed \u201cNo, not one of those \u2013 I want one with a little man on it.\u201d<br \/>\nHow sad!<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9d30dafcb6e0fa19c1e3564f0456b757-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9d30dafcb6e0fa19c1e3564f0456b757-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9d30dafcb6e0fa19c1e3564f0456b757-624x780.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9d30dafcb6e0fa19c1e3564f0456b757.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is Patient, Love is Kind from the album Love is the Way featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard &#8211; recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson I was one of the countless people in front of my tv screen cheering on Emma Raducanu to victory in the recent US Woman\u2019s Tennis Open. I have to say I [&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-2472","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\/2472","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=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}