{"id":864,"date":"2012-07-27T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=864"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T12:56:15","slug":"thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Oly 2\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oly2.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"141\" \/>The <a title=\"London Olympics 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\">Olympics<\/a> starts today! The opening ceremony is to be held at the stadium in Stratford, East London and promises to be the best one yet!<\/p>\n<p>Listening to Radio 4&#8217;s Thought for the Day this morning, Canon Duncan Green, the head of multi-fatih chaplaincy for the London Organising Committee, talked about the excitement, the anticipation- the &#8216;are we there yet&#8217; feeling!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great chance to listen to how this enormously mammoth event, through all it&#8217;s troubles and commercialisation still brings people from all over the world to celebrate and be together in harmony with a common purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Thought for the Day is also a really good opportunity to listen to a number of speakers from many different faith backgrounds talking about current issues and happenings. It&#8217;s only on for a few moments at about 7.45 am every week day morning.<\/p>\n<p>But you can always listen to it again, follow the link on <a title=\"Fatih Goes Walkabout\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/\">Faith Goes Walkabout<\/a> or direct from the <a title=\"BBC Radio 4 Thought for the day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/features\/today\/thought-for-the-day\/\">BBC.<\/a>You can also find your favourite speakers and listen to their broadcasts again or read the whole script.<\/p>\n<p>Make it a favourite then you can always access the broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>So in between the events and when you have some space for reflection it&#8217;s well worth a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p>Curate at Gayton Group of Parishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics starts today! The opening ceremony is to be held at the stadium in Stratford, East London and promises to be the best one yet! Listening to Radio 4&#8217;s Thought for the Day this morning, Canon Duncan Green, the head of multi-fatih chaplaincy for the London Organising Committee, talked about the excitement, the anticipation- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,29,1],"tags":[70,52,71,72],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-community","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-faith-goes-walkabout-2","tag-olympics","tag-thorught-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}