{"id":120,"date":"2012-02-18T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-02-18T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:20:31","slug":"fight-and-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/fight-and-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight and force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0368.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-121\" title=\"Hockey\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_0368.jpg?resize=296%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>A few days in Bath have given opportunity to watch daughter Rachel on the sports field again.\u00a0 An exciting hockey match demonstrated vigorous exertion as ladies competed on a freezing cold and very wet afternoon.\u00a0 Discomfort did not deter Rachel\u2019s team, nor did knowing that they were one goal down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a wonderful parable of the Christian life which can sometimes be so very uncomfortable.\u00a0 There is no place for discouragement.\u00a0 We strive for excellence and exert ourselves to win!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>And everyone who competes for the prize exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. <\/em><\/strong>(1 Corinthians 9<sup>25<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If for the sake of a game girls fight for all they are worth, should not men take the kingdom by force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days in Bath have given opportunity to watch daughter Rachel on the sports field again.\u00a0 An exciting hockey match demonstrated vigorous exertion as ladies competed on a freezing cold and very wet afternoon.\u00a0 Discomfort did not deter Rachel\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/fight-and-force\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2d1Zf-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gopher-ark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}