{"id":10543,"date":"2014-08-26T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2014-08-26T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:29:11","slug":"the-crane-man-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2014\/08\/26\/the-crane-man-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The crane man and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A view from above<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the place where I pray each morning in the church, there is a view just now across the houses to a huge tower crane rising above the roofs. \u00a0In a little while the driver will be up there in his cab. A friend of mine who spent all his working life in the construction industry once told me that the people who operate tower cranes were &#8216; a breed apart&#8217; &#8211; used to their own company high above the construction site. \u00a0I have to say, in this empty church this morning, I feel something of an affinity with him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is lowering things in from a great height, whilst I am looking to a great height<\/li>\n<li>He is constructing a building in the heart of the community, whilst I am reaching a community from the heart of this building.<\/li>\n<li>He must work alone, and so, on occasions, must I.<\/li>\n<li>He cannot do his job without support and instruction from the ground, and nor can I.<\/li>\n<li>From his perspective he can see how far there is to go, and how much impact the building will make.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you have a good day, Mr Crane-Man.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10545\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cranes1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10545\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10545\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cranes1-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CLICK for full size<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A view from above In the place where I pray each morning in the church, there is a view just now across the houses to a huge tower crane rising above the roofs. \u00a0In a little while the driver will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2014\/08\/26\/the-crane-man-and-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}