{"id":5136,"date":"2015-04-05T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2015-04-05T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T09:57:59","slug":"staines-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5136","title":{"rendered":"Staines Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/04\/05\/20150405-d016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Swan Upper and Easter &#8216;Dawn&#8217; Service by the Thames at Staines<\/small><br \/>\nSunrise was supposedly at 6.29am in Staines where I live this morning, although the sun didn&#8217;t manage to show its face until a brief break in the clouds close to 9am. However it felt rather early when I got out of bed and onto my bike to cycle unsteadily through the empty streets (one stuttering motocycle, a paperboy on his bike and a single car on the main road) to the riverside car park where a small group of local Christians were assembling an hour late for a dawn service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/04\/05\/20150405-d005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<small>aster &#8216;Dawn&#8217; Service by the Thames at Staines<\/small><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Christ is Risen<\/em>!&#8221; rang out over the open space (we got it in Greek too, though that was a week early) and around 20 voices responded &#8220;<em>He is risen indeed<\/em>!&#8221; and the service continued with hymn, songs, prayers and testimony , before most of those present continued their fellowship over a shared breakfast at the local Baptist church, which I was sorry to have to miss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/04\/03\/20150403-d024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Roman Soldiers from &#8216;The Staines Passion&#8217; at the Good Friday service<\/small><br \/>\nEaster is becoming more visible in Staines, with a procession through the town to a service in the local shopping centre on Good Friday, handing out free hot cross buns with a message on the serviettes, and two large open-air performances of &#8216;The Staines Passion&#8217;, a dramatised recreation of the Gospel stories on Holy Saturday, which this year I missed, though I did <a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2014\/04\/apr.htm#passion\" target=\"_blank\">photograph it last year<\/a>. Many of the cast were at the Good Friday procession, some in costume, and they performed a short version of the Last Supper and the arrest of Jesus as a trailer for the main event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2015\/04\/03\/20150403-d151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Jesus and the disciples from &#8216;The Staines Passion&#8217; performing the Last Supper<\/small><br \/>\nBack home it was time for more hot cross buns (I prefer them cold and with a bitter touch of good marmalade) and Easter Eggs. And perhaps later a good walk after I&#8217;ve recovered from that early rising.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2014\/04\/19\/20140419-d583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<small>A scene from the 2014 performance of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2014\/04\/apr.htm#passion\" target=\"_blank\">The Staines Passion<\/a>&#8216;<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swan Upper and Easter &#8216;Dawn&#8217; Service by the Thames at Staines Sunrise was supposedly at 6.29am in Staines where I live this morning, although the sun didn&#8217;t manage to show its face until a brief break in the clouds close to 9am. However it felt rather early when I got out of bed and onto &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=5136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staines Easter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}