{"id":1191,"date":"2013-07-14T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/?page_id=1191"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:01:43","slug":"the-road-to-jericho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/the-road-to-jericho\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Jericho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a man went travelling down\u2013 or so the story goes-<\/p>\n<p>and he was mugged and let for dead on the road to Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A priest was going down that way and saw the wounded man.<\/p>\n<p>He eyed him once. He eyed him twice and thought it didn\u2019t seem quite right.<\/p>\n<p>So he left him there in the stones and sand on the road to Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A temple servant passed that way and saw the dying man.<\/p>\n<p>He looked him up. He looked him down, remembered business in the town.<\/p>\n<p>So he left him there in the flies and heat on the road to Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A foreign merchant next came by, an outcast in the land.<\/p>\n<p>He saw the pain. He saw the grief.<\/p>\n<p>He brought the suffering man relief<\/p>\n<p>and helped him till they reached an inn on the road to Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now you and I go travelling down so many different roads.<\/p>\n<p>We see a world that is sunk in pain<\/p>\n<p>and we know it won\u2019t be right again<\/p>\n<p>unless we help each help each other walk our roads to Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 1979, 2006, Claravallis Editions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a man went travelling down\u2013 or so the story goes- and he was mugged and let for dead on the road to Jericho. &nbsp; A priest was going down that way and saw the wounded man. He eyed him once. He eyed him twice and thought it didn\u2019t seem quite right. So he<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/the-road-to-jericho\/\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1183,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1191","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sthelenscatenians.co.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}