{"id":6711,"date":"2024-03-01T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2024-03-01T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:49:20","slug":"medieval-churches-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Churches and The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning <strong>Clare<\/strong> and I went on a tour of medieval churches in <strong>Gloucester.<\/strong> It was good to drop into forgotten places that are absolute gems. <strong>Gloucester<\/strong> is a real mix some amazing buildings and parts that have been blighted by 1960s planners. It is such a shame that such an interesting historical city has been treated like this. I was pleased when our guide confirmed\u00a0 <strong>The Crown<\/strong> as <strong>Colonel Massey&#8217;s<\/strong> headquarters\u00a0 in the <strong>Civil War<\/strong> &#8211; I mentioned it in my book Pig the Legend.<\/p>\n<p>One of <strong>Gloucester&#8217;s<\/strong> gems!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6712\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=6712\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4905\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6712\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg?resize=421%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning <strong>Steve<\/strong> (our India tour manager) and I were interviewed by <strong>Radio Bristol<\/strong> about our recent tour- well more like a discussion than an interview! It was for a programme called <em><strong>Extra Time<\/strong><\/em> not sure when it is going to be broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Off to watch the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Mighty Hatters<\/span><\/strong> tomorrow with my son <strong>David.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning Clare and I went on a tour of medieval churches in Gloucester. It was good to drop into forgotten places that are absolute gems. Gloucester is a real mix some amazing buildings and parts that have been blighted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-1Kf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}