{"id":247,"date":"2015-03-27T19:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2019-01-05T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:47:45","slug":"it-ended-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"It ended with a bang!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 27th March should have seen us ring our normal fourth Friday peal at Farnworth. This month we were ringing Livermorium Surprise Major.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately things came to a sudden stop at the end of the second course, just before 15 minutes of ringing, when the clapper on the sixth parted company with the bell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0167.jpg\" alt=\"The Clapper and Crown Staple\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0167.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0167-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clapper and Crown Staple<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On further inspection it appears that the crown-staple nut had worked. This allowed\u00a0the crown-staple to fall out and hit the mouth of the bell causing the fracture you can see in this picture.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0168.jpg\" alt=\"Damaged beyond repair\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0168.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0168-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damaged beyond repair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 27th March should have seen us ring our normal fourth Friday peal at Farnworth. This month we were ringing Livermorium Surprise Major. Unfortunately things came to a sudden stop at the end of the second course, just before 15 minutes of ringing, when the clapper on the sixth parted company with the bell. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lancashire-association","category-ringing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}