{"id":7470,"date":"2021-02-17T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2021-02-17T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T08:14:59","slug":"crouchs-towering-church-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/crouchs-towering-church-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouch keeps his distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Peter Crouch, the former England international footballer, is playing a crucial role in reminding people who attend a Gloucestershire church how they must socially distance.<br \/>\nSome members of the St Mary\u2019s church congregation in Cheltenham struggle to imagine what two metres actually looks like \u2013 but a 6ft 7in cut-out of the former Premier League star is the perfect practical example!<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Nick Bromfield, the vicar of St Mary\u2019s, decided that the former striker is ideal for the role and said: \u2018He stands near the entrance and he greets parishioners in his dinner jacket and Rolex as they arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People do a double-take but instantly realise and remember they\u2019ve got to keep two metres apart.\u2019<br \/>\nDistinguished gentleman<br \/>\nReverend Bromfield, speaking to Premier Christian News, said the Crouch cut-out has even sparked unusual conversations from outside the church.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Last week, a very distinguished gentleman came up came in and I noticed he did a double-take at Peter Crouch as he lef...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Crouch, the former England international footballer, is playing a crucial role in reminding people who attend a Gloucestershire church how they must socially distance. Some members of the St Mary\u2019s church congregation in Cheltenham struggle to imagine what two metres actually looks like \u2013 but a 6ft 7in cut-out of the former Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}