{"id":110551,"date":"2022-03-15T17:08:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110551"},"modified":"2022-03-15T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T22:42:05","slug":"halifax-courier-probably-the-countrys-oldest-active-bell-ringer-has-celebrated-his-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110551","title":{"rendered":"(Halifax Courier) Probably the country\u2019s oldest active bell ringer has celebrated his 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Halstead, from Todmorden, took up the hobby when he was in his teens and still at school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour of us lads went to Christ Church, in Todmorden, and they agreed to teach us the art. It was probably a mistake \u2013 four teenagers were something of a handful \u2013 but I have loved it ever since,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continued when Christ Church closed as a Church, and moved to St Mary\u2019s in Todmorden, where a new set of eight bells were installed by the local ringers, seven newly cast, and one chiming bell taken from Christ Church. As I got older St Mary\u2019s proved to be a wise move. \u201cIt is a ground-floor ringing room, there are no well-worn stone steps to climb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxcourier.co.uk\/news\/people\/bells-ring-out-for-terry-from-todmordens-100th-birthday-3609861\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bells ring out for Terry from Todmorden&#39;s 100th birthday<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u0FI2Mzxse\">https:\/\/t.co\/u0FI2Mzxse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Halifax Courier (@HXCourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HXCourier\/status\/1503710103588929541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Halstead, from Todmorden, took up the hobby when he was in his teens and still at school. \u201cFour of us lads went to Christ Church, in Todmorden, and they agreed to teach us the art. It was probably a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110551\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,389,183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-church-of-england-coe","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110553,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110551\/revisions\/110553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}