{"id":319,"date":"2008-10-08T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:07:21","slug":"taking-the-episcopalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/10\/08\/taking-the-episcopalian\/","title":{"rendered":"taking the Episcopalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/takingtheepiscopalian.wordpress.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/takingtheepiscopalian.wordpress.com\/', 'site of this name');\">site of this name<\/a> but I&#8217;m going to use this post to applaud St. Mary&#8217;s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. On a weekend visit to Edinburgh last month I wondered whether to go along there on the Sunday.  I rang their office out of hours on Saturday night, hoping their answerphone message might tell me service times.  Not only did it do that, but I was told which service settings would be used for Eucharist and Evensong.  I accordingly went along to the morning Eucharist to hear Vaughan Williams&#8217; Mass in G minor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m normally a bit better organised and look up service times on the internet before I travel so I don&#8217;t have to ring up, but I wonder whether many other Cathedrals do this?<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed and enjoyed on the broadcasts from this Cathedral is the full-blooded approach to playing the hymns, including office hymns at evensong.  The introit hymn at this service was the first time in a long while, perhaps ever, that I have been unable to hear myself singing when in the congregation (in a choir this is much commoner, depending on the piece, the acoustic, the singers and the way they are arranged).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading the site of this name but I&#8217;m going to use this post to applaud St. Mary&#8217;s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh. On a weekend visit to Edinburgh last month I wondered whether to go along there on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/10\/08\/taking-the-episcopalian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[881,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}