{"id":26886,"date":"2019-04-10T18:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26886"},"modified":"2019-04-10T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:21:19","slug":"new-vicar-goes-for-a-tram-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26886","title":{"rendered":"New vicar goes for a tram ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parish of Crich and South Wingfield \u2013 which covers the area around the Crich Tramway Village \u2013 has a new vicar and to celebrate the fact he went for a tram ride and had his reception at the museum with <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong> doing the honours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Rev Ian Whitehead is the new priest-in-charge at St Mary\u2019s Church, Crich and All Saints South Wingfield in the Diocese of Derby and was licenced as such at a special ceremony on Monday 8th April which included a post event reception at the Crich Tramway Village \u2013 plus a tram ride on <strong>Leeds 345<\/strong> after the museum had closed to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26887\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26887\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26887\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26887\" title=\"1.vicar-ctv\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.vicar-ctv-270x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.vicar-ctv-270x550.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.vicar-ctv-502x1024.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.vicar-ctv.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev Ian Whitehead prepares to board Leeds 345.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26888\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26888\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26888\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26888\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26888\" title=\"2.vicar-ctv\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.vicar-ctv-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.vicar-ctv-550x309.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.vicar-ctv-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2.vicar-ctv.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tram crew and guests at the reception pose in front of Leeds 345. (Both Photographs courtesy of Crich Tramway Village)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parish of Crich and South Wingfield \u2013 which covers the area around the Crich Tramway Village \u2013 has a new vicar and to celebrate the fact he went for a tram ride and had his reception at the museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26890,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions\/26890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}