{"id":262,"date":"2016-09-24T15:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:39:31","slug":"bell-ringers-success-in-striking-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2016\/09\/24\/bell-ringers-success-in-striking-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Ringers Success in Striking Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 9<sup>th<\/sup> July 2016, St Andrew\u2019s bell ringers took part in\u00a0The Essex Association striking competition finals at\u00a0Mistley (near Harwich).<\/p>\n<p>There were 11 teams taking part from all over Essex and\u00a0each team had to ring 240 changes of any method.<\/p>\n<p>This means concentrating hard for about 8 or 9 minutes\u00a0whilst the judges listen for any irregularities (faults) in\u00a0the ringing, for example, when 2 bell \u2018clash\u2019 together.<\/p>\n<p>Each team is then given a total number of faults and the\u00a0team with the least faults wins.<\/p>\n<p>Our team performed well, registering 51 faults out of a\u00a0possible 240 and finished 7<sup>th<\/sup> out of the 11 teams taking\u00a0part.<\/p>\n<p>The team was a mixture of youth and experience and included 2 young ringers from South Ockendon:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_263\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"L\u2013R: Clare Merivale, Jonathan Mills, Gavin Carpenter, Paul Bloomfield, Chris Pain and Clive Stephenson\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?resize=380%2C285&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?resize=285%2C214&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/007.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L\u2013R: Clare Merivale, Jonathan Mills, Gavin Carpenter, Paul Bloomfield, Chris Pain and Clive Stephenson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9th July 2016, St Andrew\u2019s bell ringers took part in\u00a0The Essex Association striking competition finals at\u00a0Mistley (near Harwich). There were 11 teams taking part from all over Essex and\u00a0each team had to ring 240 changes of any method. This means concentrating hard for about 8 or 9 minutes\u00a0whilst the judges listen for any irregularities<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2016\/09\/24\/bell-ringers-success-in-striking-competition\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}