{"id":649,"date":"2007-09-14T05:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-09-13T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:17:04","slug":"departed-this-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/09\/14\/departed-this-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Departed this life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/1347651500\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1190\/1347651500_50b55724cc.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Departed this life\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several churches (both new and old) in the town centre of Colchester, and at least two of them have been deconsecrated and put to other uses.  One, rather amusingly, houses a natural history museum; I haven&#8217;t visited it yet, but intend to.  The other is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colchesterartscentre.com\/\">Colchester Arts Centre<\/a>; we haven&#8217;t attended an event there yet, but they let us wander around inside one day and take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/sets\/72157601901323558\/\">some photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above is from the church (which I think is still a church) opposite the library.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several churches (both new and old) in the town centre of Colchester, and at least two of them have been deconsecrated and put to other uses. One, rather amusingly, houses a natural history museum; I haven&#8217;t visited it yet, but intend to. The other is now the Colchester Arts Centre; we haven&#8217;t attended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/09\/14\/departed-this-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Departed this life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[20,27,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-at","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":667,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/10\/27\/an-excellent-evening-of-afro-pop\/","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":0},"title":"An excellent evening of afro-pop","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"27 Oct 07","format":false,"excerpt":"First - I'm not dead, I just play a corpse on TV. It's just been super busy, blah, blah, blah, and blogging fell off the radar for a bit. I'll try to get back on the wagon again, however, starting with a brief report of some fine live music that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/short-cut-road\/","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":1},"title":"Short Cut Road","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Gotta love cool street names. This is in an area just north of the Colchester City Centre called the Dutch Quarter (see map).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":717,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/25\/stepping-into-the-unknown\/","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":2},"title":"Stepping into the unknown","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"The tour of Colchester Castle not only took us down to the Dungeon, but we also got to climb up onto the roof. 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