{"id":708,"date":"2010-05-22T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-09-14T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:30:34","slug":"st-marys-church-whitby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/2010\/05\/st-marys-church-whitby\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s Church, Whitby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary&#8217;s Church, <a title=\"Whitby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitbyonline.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitby<\/a> overlooks the fishing town and is used as a navigational aid for sailors due to it&#8217;s location and prominence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_981\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/708.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-981\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-981\" title=\"St Mary\u2019s Church, Whitby\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/708-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"St Mary\u2019s Church, Whitby\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/708-203x152.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/708.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Mary\u2019s Church, Whitby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was here, at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, that the Saxon Christians decided to adopt the customs of the Roman Catholic church instead of the Celtic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Whitby is also connected to <a title=\"William Scoresby\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Scoresby\" target=\"_blank\">William Scoresby<\/a> (a whaler featured in\u00a0Moby Dick), Bram Stoker (who set much of\u00a0<a title=\"Dracula in Whitby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dracula-in-whitby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dracula in Whitby<\/a>) and <a title=\"Capt James Cook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitbyonline.co.uk\/whitbyhistory\/captaincook.php\" target=\"_blank\">Captain James Cook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>199 steps lead up to the parish\u00a0church of St. Mary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary&#8217;s Church, Whitby overlooks the fishing town and is used as a navigational aid for sailors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[687,685,680,682,683,689,684,688,675,676,679,677,681,678,686],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building_clocks","tag-bram-stoker","tag-captain-james-cook","tag-celtic-church","tag-christians","tag-customs","tag-dracula","tag-fishing","tag-moby-dick","tag-navigational-aid","tag-prominence","tag-roman-catholic-church","tag-sailors","tag-saxon","tag-synod-of-whitby","tag-william-scoresby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civic-time.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}