{"id":3860,"date":"2020-07-17T17:55:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2020-08-29T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T12:04:25","slug":"time-to-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/time-to-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to reflect?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-768x1024.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3861\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-rotated.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3861\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-3861\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20768%201024%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-158x210.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-in-tower-small-rotated.jpg 1224w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-1024x768.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3862\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3862\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-3862\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271024%27%20height%3D%27768%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201024%20768%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271024%27%20height%3D%27768%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-210x158.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/clock-small.jpg 1632w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Time&#8217; to look up again! Our clock mechanism is back and keeping perfect time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clock was originally installed in Holy Rood Church, on the Lawn, in 1843 and has been in the Christ Church clock tower since 1851. Its repair was made possible by legacies left to the charity Friends of Christ Church. We thank the Friends for all that they do. To find out more about the Friends of Christ Church, go to:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/friends.php\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/friends.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Everything Has Its Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:<br>a time to be born, and a time to die;<br>a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;<br>a time to kill, and a time to heal;<br>a time to break down, and a time to build up;<br>a time to weep, and a time to laugh;<br>a time to mourn, and a time to dance;<br>a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;<br>a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;<br>a time to seek, and a time to lose;<br>a time to keep, and a time to throw away;<br>a time to tear, and a time to sew;<br>a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;<br>a time to love, and a time to hate;<br>a time for war, and a time for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ecclesiastes 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs by Janet French<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Time&#8217; to look up again! Our clock mechanism is back and keeping perfect time. The clock was originally installed in Holy Rood Church, on the Lawn, in 1843 and has been in the Christ Church clock tower since 1851. Its repair was made possible by legacies left to the charity Friends of Christ Church. We thank the Friends for all that they do. To find out more about the Friends of Christ Church, go to:\u00a0https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/friends.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}