{"id":336,"date":"2014-09-07T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:31:11","slug":"bishop-of-bedford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/?page_id=336","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Bedford Visits Bletsoe Bell Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop checks on the bell chamber restoration\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914-624x939.jpg 624w, http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140914.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bishop checks on the bell chamber restoration<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Bishop of Bedford, the Right Reverend Richard Atkinson visited Bletsoe Church on Thursday 4th September 2014.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> He was very keen to see how the restoration in the bell chamber was progressing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The picture shows him at the top of the ladder which leads into the bell chamber, closely followed by the Rector of Bletsoe Church, Martin Bailey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bishop returned on Sunday 7th September to address our church service and also to conduct a christening in the newly repaired font.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We also had our first\u00a0public performance\u00a0with the newly restored handbells and despite little practice managed to deliver a reasonable\u00a0accompaniment to the organ.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Bedford, the Right Reverend Richard Atkinson visited Bletsoe Church on Thursday 4th September 2014. He was very keen to see how the restoration in the bell chamber was progressing. The picture shows him at the top of the ladder which leads into the bell chamber, closely followed by the Rector of Bletsoe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bletsoebells.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}