{"id":3070,"date":"2018-07-19T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:34:03","slug":"when-does-gasson-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/19\/when-does-gasson-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"When does Gasson ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AW071918-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3069\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AW071918-1-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"When does Gasson ring?\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When does Gasson ring?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a description of the bells of Gasson (did you know there are four of them?) in &#8220;The Spirit of the Heights,&#8221; a history of BC written by University historian Thomas H. O&#8217;Connor and published in 2011. Here&#8217;s the part about the ringing: &#8220;&#8230; from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the bells would announce each quarter of the hour, and every 60 minutes they would toll the exact hour. At noon and again at 6 p.m., the Gasson Tower bells sounded the Angelus as an invitation to all who heard it to pause for a moment of prayer or reflection. The works originally required a twice-weekly hand-winding, but the bells went automatic in the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a description of the bells of Gasson (did you know there are four of them?) in &#8220;The Spirit of the Heights,&#8221; a history of BC written by University historian Thomas H. O&#8217;Connor and published in 2011. Here&#8217;s the part about the ringing: &#8220;&#8230; from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the bells would announce &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/19\/when-does-gasson-ring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When does Gasson ring?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[304,303],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-bells","tag-gasson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}