{"id":17719,"date":"2024-09-28T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=17719"},"modified":"2024-09-27T23:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:45:24","slug":"harvest-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2024\/09\/harvest-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward to some good food and good conversation with the folk at WEC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Harvest Supper.<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> West End Chapel. Fareham. Hants.<br \/>\n<strong>What: <\/strong>Giving a short talk\/epilogue.<\/p>\n<p>Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word h\u00e6rfest, <em>&#8220;Autumn&#8221;<\/em>.<br \/>\nFarmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper. Some churches and villages still have a Harvest Supper.<\/p>\n<p>The modern British tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. Victorian hymns such as &#8220;We plough the fields and scatter&#8221;, &#8220;Come ye thankful people, come&#8221; and &#8220;All things bright and beautiful&#8221; helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2024\/09\/harvest-supper\/harvest-supper\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/harvest-supper-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/harvest-supper-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/harvest-supper.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward to some good food and good conversation with the folk at WEC. What: Harvest Supper. Where: West End Chapel. Fareham. Hants. What: Giving a short talk\/epilogue. Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word h\u00e6rfest, &#8220;Autumn&#8221;. Farmers celebrated the end of the harvest with a big meal called a harvest supper. Some churches and villages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17723,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17719\/revisions\/17723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}