{"id":272,"date":"2016-10-05T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/?p=272"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:45:00","slug":"trainee-bell-ringers-perform-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2016\/10\/05\/trainee-bell-ringers-perform-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainee Bell Ringers Perform Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Andrew\u2019s and South Ockendon bell ringers\u00a0entered 2 teams for a striking competition\u00a0designed to encourage new bell ringers to\u00a0take part.<\/p>\n<p>Each team consisted of 6 ringers of which\u00a0the majority were new recruits having never\u00a0taken part in such a competition before.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was held at Dagenham Parish\u00a0Church with 4 teams from the SW District of Essex\u00a0taking part. Each team had to ring for between\u00a05 and 8 minutes whilst the conductor moved\u00a0the bells to different positions (Call Changes).<\/p>\n<p>Despite lots of nerves and apprehension, both\u00a0of our teams successfully completed their test\u00a0pieces and finished in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> places, losing\u00a0out to Epping in 1<sup>st<\/sup> place. All have resolved to\u00a0take part again next year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_273\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The photo shows some of the ringers who took part: L - R: Rosemarie Edwards, Terry Thornhill, Rose Kaziro, Steve Sampson, Michelle Long, John Stephenson and Jane Harper.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?resize=380%2C285&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?resize=285%2C214&amp;ssl=1 285w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/021.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photo shows some of the ringers who took part:<br \/>L &#8211; R: Rosemarie Edwards, Terry Thornhill, Rose Kaziro, Steve Sampson, Michelle Long, John Stephenson and Jane Harper.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Andrew\u2019s and South Ockendon bell ringers\u00a0entered 2 teams for a striking competition\u00a0designed to encourage new bell ringers to\u00a0take part. Each team consisted of 6 ringers of which\u00a0the majority were new recruits having never\u00a0taken part in such a competition before. The competition was held at Dagenham Parish\u00a0Church with 4 teams from the SW District of<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/2016\/10\/05\/trainee-bell-ringers-perform-well\/\" 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-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79MJg-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornchurchbells.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}