{"id":1303,"date":"2011-02-26T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2011-02-27T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T22:24:15","slug":"half-an-hour-of-empty-breathing-space-quaker-meeting-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Still&#8230; in the City. Half an hour of empty breathing space! Quaker Meeting House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Every Tuesday 5.30-6pm, starting on March 1st<\/h2>\n<h2>\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Before you head home or out&#8230; <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Unwind in peace<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>\u00a0Find stillness and space to breath\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Given peace&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0 \u2026 you could feel things different<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you imagine a group of people in Norwich offering the public thirty minutes of nothing at all?<\/strong>\u00a0 The Norwich Quaker Meeting is doing something similar.\u00a0 The idea is to offer members of the public half an hour of silence as a way of helping them to recover after a hectic day, whether at work or shopping or looking after children.\u00a0 The idea is to simply create a bit of space in which to collect yourself again\u2018Silence is becoming a pretty scarce commodity in modern times, what with mobile phones, continuous social networking and non-stop demands from from others around us,&#8217; said Deb Arrowsmith, of\u00a0 Norwich Quaker Meeting.\u00a0 <strong>&#8216;People will appreciate an oasis of stillness at the end of the afternoon, helping them to get more out of the rest of their day.<\/strong>&#8216;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re offering people is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> a religious service but simple peace and quiet&#8230;\u00a0 literally being &#8216;<strong>Still in the City<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Norwich Quakers will be creating this &#8216;breathiang space&#8217; for the public every <strong>Tuesday from 5.30 to 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>starting on Tuesday 1<sup>st<\/sup> March<\/strong>.\u00a0 There will be tea, coffee and chat afterwards for those who wish it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will take place at the <strong>Norwich Quaker Meeting House, which is in Upper Goat Lane<\/strong> between Pottergate and St. Giles Street, by the City Hall clock tower, just a couple of minutes from Norwich Market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information from:\u00a0 Deb Arrowsmith, Warden\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 07899 754767 \/ 01508 482659\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:norwichquakers@btinternet.com\" target=\"_blank\">norwichquakers@btinternet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday 5.30-6pm, starting on March 1st \u00a0\u00a0Before you head home or out&#8230; Unwind in peace \u00a0\u00a0Find stillness and space to breath\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Given peace&#8230;\u00a0 \u2026 you could feel things different Can you imagine a group of people in Norwich offering the public thirty minutes of nothing at all?\u00a0 The Norwich Quaker Meeting is doing something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}