{"id":656,"date":"2010-10-15T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T08:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardlittledale.wordpress.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-10-15T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T08:16:55","slug":"beware-of-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2010\/10\/15\/beware-of-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#333399;\"><strong>A cautionary tale for preachers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After all &#8211; there&#8217;s all that other stuff to remember &#8211; like Bible, notes, praying etc. How can you be expected to be responsible for the water in the pulpit too? In my previous church there was a big, high,\u00a0imposing\u00a0pulpit. Standing up there, in the last verse of the last hymn before the sermon, I decided to pour myself a drink from the carafe of water provided. The only trouble was &#8211; I looked up at the clock as I was doing so&#8230;and poured it all down my trouser leg! I squelched about in the pulpit for the duration of the sermon, and then stood at the door afterwards with my legs firmly crossed to cover my embarrassment!<\/p>\n<p>If that is the biggest problem I ever face with water &#8211; I am a very fortunate person indeed. Along with\u00a0thousands\u00a0of other bloggers \u00a0I am drawing attention<a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.change.org\/\"> today <\/a>to those whose problems with water are far far greater. Can you\u00a0believe\u00a0that every week 38,000 children under 5 die from diseases associated with polluted water? Think today of how different your life would be if you had no water in the tap&#8230;no flushing toilet&#8230;no means to clean body or clothes.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6mL8-YvyEQU&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB]<\/p>\n<p>When water is the thing that&#8217;s missing it&#8217;s not a game, and maybe this <em>LittleBigPlanet<\/em> needs to think more seriously about how to share a resource far more precious than oil. To sign the Blog Action Day petition &#8211; please click <a href=\"http:\/\/blogactionday.change.org\/sign-petition\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cautionary tale for preachers After all &#8211; there&#8217;s all that other stuff to remember &#8211; like Bible, notes, praying etc. How can you be expected to be responsible for the water in the pulpit too? In my previous church &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2010\/10\/15\/beware-of-the-water\/\">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":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}