{"id":3282,"date":"2024-09-12T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2024-09-12T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:01:32","slug":"blog-september-12th-moments-of-sunshine-no-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Blog September 12th Moments of Sunshine No 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3283\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfie-hewitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"976\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfie-hewitt.jpg 976w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfie-hewitt-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfie-hewitt-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alfie-hewitt-624x350.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3282-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Bathe-Me-In-Your-Light.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Bathe-Me-In-Your-Light.m4a\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/05-Bathe-Me-In-Your-Light.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Bathe Me In Your Light featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album I Look Up To The Heavens recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/H34eQdWHdiE?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/H34eQdWHdiE?feature=share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What words are they to describe the performances we witnessed during the recent Paris Para- Olympics?\u00a0 Inspirational, courageous, heartwarming, heart- breaking? It is said a picture paints a thousand words and now videos perhaps even more.\u00a0 So, today\u2019s blog features a picture (well photo) and a video.<\/p>\n<p>I did the high jump quite a bit in my youth \u2013 first at Primary School using the \u201cScissors\u201d technique in which you landed on your feet. As the landing area was made up of hard coconut matting no other technique was feasible (unless of course you were mad!) \u00a0Then at Secondary school sand pits allowed the \u201cWestern Roll\u201d in which you landed on your side. Then at College, \u201cStraddle\u201d which was similar to \u201cWestern Roll\u201d but, like its name suggests, the bar was straddled with one leg then the other (\u201cWestern roll\u201d had both legs clearing the bar at the same time.\u201d) Then with the advent of crash mats and a high jump phenomenon named Dick Fosbury it was the \u201cFosbury\u201d or \u201cFosbury Flop\u201d as it was first called. So, with this background I was in total awe of what the high jumper in the video achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The camaraderie which was intrinsic to the Para- Olympics is beautifully portrayed in the featured photo of wheelchair tennis singles finalists Alfie Hewitt and Tokito Oda, Tokito had just beaten Alfie and in the emotion of winning fell out of his wheelchair \u2013 Alfie came over to the other side of the net to help Tokito back into his chair, replacing a wheel and ending in an embrace of mutual respect.\u00a0 Magic!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3285\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JimC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JimC.jpg 850w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JimC-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JimC-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JimC-624x294.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bathe Me In Your Light featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album I Look Up To The Heavens recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/H34eQdWHdiE?feature=share &nbsp; What words are they to describe the performances we witnessed during the recent Paris Para- Olympics?\u00a0 Inspirational, courageous, heartwarming, heart- breaking? It is said a picture paints a thousand [&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-3282","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\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}