{"id":532,"date":"2014-08-07T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-08-07T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:29:59","slug":"national-day-of-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-533 alignleft\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-300x174.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-250x145.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At the close of the Prime Minister\u2019s address at the service for the National Day of Mourning, Rev\u2019d Jan Harper tolled the bell at Christ Church Swan Hill fortyone times, remembering the 38 Australian passengers who died, and three more for the other passengers, the aircrew, and all those affected by this terrible tragedy. Candles had been lit in the Lady Chapel , across the altar and windowsills, and parishioners were invited to spend a time of meditation, reflection, and prayers for peace in the world as quiet music played.<\/p>\n<p>One who attended recalled a similar gathering during the funeral of Princess Diana, when \u201cPavanne for a Dead Princess\u201d was played as prayers for her family, and especially for her young boys, were offered at the altar.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Mellahn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-533 alignleft\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-300x174.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-250x145.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Day-of-Mourning.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At the close of the Prime Minister\u2019s address at the service for the National Day of Mourning, Rev\u2019d Jan Harper tolled the bell at Christ Church  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=532\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Zkbl-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}