{"id":3478,"date":"2025-05-01T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:31:40","slug":"blog-may-1st-moments-of-sunshine-no-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"Blog May 1st Moments of Sunshine No 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DAVID TENNANT&#039;S BAFTA 2025 OPENING PERFORMANCE AND MONOLOGUE!!!\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fS6QB5tx-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3478-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Living-It-Up-3.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Living-It-Up-3.m4a\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Living-It-Up-3.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Living It Up featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band from the album Heart and Soul recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\n<p>So, St George\u2019s Day was not on April 23rd as I said last week \u2013 was I totally wrong then? Well not really \u2013 traditionally St George\u2019s Day is celebrated on 23rd April every year, but the Church of England has changed the date this year because no saint\u2019s day can take place in the week before or after Easter.<br \/>\nAccording to the Church of England any saint\u2019s day falling in Holy or Easter week moves to the week after the Easter fortnight, usually to the first Monday, so this year it was Monday April 28th<br \/>\nAnyway, featured today is another moment of sunshine for you \u2013 I thought David Tennant was great and had a lot of nerve performing this classic<br \/>\nAnd if you want to hear the original by The Proclaimers<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Proclaimers - I&#039;m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Official Music Video)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbNlMtqrYS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3483\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tandag-FB-Pope-Francis-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tandag-FB-Pope-Francis-1.png 611w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tandag-FB-Pope-Francis-1-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living It Up featuring the Mustard Seed Soul Band from the album Heart and Soul recorded and produced by Ross Gill So, St George\u2019s Day was not on April 23rd as I said last week \u2013 was I totally wrong then? Well not really \u2013 traditionally St George\u2019s Day is celebrated on 23rd April every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3484,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}