{"id":76,"date":"2020-04-27T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:47:18","slug":"neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any language learner will know that language mirrors culture and often belies the values which underpin the life of a group.<br><br>I had a fresh insight of this when I wrote in my Arabic homework that my neighbourhood was friendly. My teacher said that the adjective friendly isn\u2019t needed in the Arabic because the word neighbour \/neighbourhood implies friendliness within it.&nbsp; So the concept of&nbsp;a neighbourhood as unfriendly is an oxymoron in the Arabic\u2026Neighbours are to be known, to share life&#8217;s ups and downs with, to work together with for the sake of each other , to &#8216;be friendly&#8217; by definition.<br><br>It adds meaning and challenge to the&nbsp;thought that&nbsp;Jesus, in the incarnation, chose the friendship method by &nbsp;\u2018 moving into the neighbourhood \u2019 in order to make God fully known to those in His community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any language learner will know that language mirrors culture and often belies the values which underpin the life of a group. I had a fresh insight of this when I wrote in my Arabic homework that my neighbourhood was friendly. My teacher said that the adjective friendly isn\u2019t needed in the Arabic because the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentlyengaging.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}