{"id":341,"date":"2023-03-10T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/?p=341"},"modified":"2023-10-05T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:36:32","slug":"on-breaking-a-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/on-breaking-a-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"On breaking a stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stays are the one part of a bell that are designed to break!\u00a0 They are there to rest the bell when it is perched upside down and ready to ring – but they mustn’t be so strong that they would let anything more expensive break if the ringer pulls too hard.<\/p>\n

They do say that, if a learner breaks a stay, it is the teacher\/supervisor’s fault.\u00a0 Last night, a stay was broken.\u00a0 It was a learner.\u00a0 I was the teacher.\u00a0 But I want to ditch that word, “fault”. Stays are designed to break.\u00a0 Last night, it all worked exactly as designed and, though it is a right pain to have to go out, make\u00a0 a new one and refit it (especially in today’s weather!), that is how the system should work.<\/p>\n

Bad luck, ****** (name suppressed to avoid shame!) – but that’s what happens.\u00a0 You’ve learned something new!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stays are the one part of a bell that are designed to break!\u00a0 They are there to rest the bell when it is perched upside down and ready to ring – but they mustn’t be so strong that they would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildwickringers.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}