{"id":105,"date":"2019-12-21T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:04:24","slug":"seal-with-zeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/2019\/12\/21\/seal-with-zeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal with Zeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thinking about zeal, an old fashioned word for enthusiasm. I find it is something that very much ebbs and flows in me, especially around this time of year. It reminded me of the seal I saw, earlier in the year on the beach between Golspie and Brora, on the North East Coast of Scotland, on the End to End.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"8f1cef4f-ac99-41f7-b021-991bd7f89e44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/100_24886521193018816208796-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>O balancing seal,<br \/>\nYou balance, banana like,<br \/>\nYour shapely form<br \/>\nEnjoying the waves and tides.<\/p>\n<p>O balancing seal,<br \/>\nYou incarnate the possibility<br \/>\nOf a life lived in balance<br \/>\nWith the environment.<\/p>\n<p>O balancing seal,<br \/>\nLend me your zeal<br \/>\nFor the Balanced Life,<br \/>\nGiving Glory to God.<\/p>\n<p>JAL 21.12.2019 Winter Solstice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thinking about zeal, an old fashioned word for enthusiasm. I find it is something that very much ebbs and flows in me, especially around this time of year. It reminded me of the seal I saw, earlier in the year on the beach between Golspie and Brora, on the North East Coast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/2019\/12\/21\/seal-with-zeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seal with Zeal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.bobjanet.org.uk\/afterlejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}