{"id":1596,"date":"2016-03-29T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:33:04","slug":"easter-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/easter-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Saturday (Glasgow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; a guest post from Mark Langdon, Chair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuconline.co.uk\/\">North United Communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The Easter Saturday event was a brilliant example of community assets in motion. The church hall filled with local people some organising cooking and organising and many having fun chatting to friends and relatives neighbours and new faces (like me). I was there in my role as Chairperson of North United Communities staffing the stall that IRISS had provided with the aim of capturing what people liked about their area and themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Tellingly the biggest challenge for most folk was saying something good about themselves. For me the experience was fantastic so many great people finding time to spend together mothers and fathers helping their kids showing patience and providing encouragement. The best way to give you a sense of the day \u2013 apart from a picture of me wearing bunny ears (which I do every Easter) \u2013 is to let you read the words that were hung on the listening tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">The day recharged my faith in the inherit goodness of people and reminded me how little people are asking for in their communities \u2013 security, warmth, food and hope for the future \u2013 they deserve all that and a lot more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78721-e1462807503102.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1599 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78721-e1462807503102.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7872(1)\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78721-e1462807503102.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78721-e1462807503102-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78741-e1462807533983.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1601 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78741-e1462807533983.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7874(1)\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78741-e1462807533983.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78741-e1462807533983-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78711-e1462807469962.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1598 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78711-e1462807469962.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7871(1)\" width=\"313\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78711-e1462807469962.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/files\/2016\/05\/IMG_78711-e1462807469962-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; a guest post from Mark Langdon, Chair, North United Communities The Easter Saturday event was a brilliant example of community assets in motion. The church hall filled with local people some organising cooking and organising and many having fun chatting to friends and relatives neighbours and new faces (like me). I was there in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/easter-saturday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easter Saturday (Glasgow)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[16721],"tags":[5040,9,16787,16788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/thebigidea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}