{"id":12395,"date":"2025-09-18T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:07:08","slug":"view-from-the-bell-tower-of-a-1747-meetinghouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/09\/view-from-the-bell-tower-of-a-1747-meetinghouse\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the bell tower of a 1747 meetinghouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I climbed up to the bell level of the tower of the Cohasset Meetinghouse, because someone wanted to know if our bell was cast by Paul Revere (it was not). While I was up there, I took a panoramic photo. Not much of a view, to be honest \u2014 the tower isn&#8217;t all that tall, and it doesn&#8217;t have the dramatic view the you get from First Parish in Lexington (from which you can see the skyscrapers of Boston), or from First Unitarian in New Bedford (from which you can see New Bedford Harbor). But it&#8217;s still a charming view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-1024x227.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-1024x227.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-300x66.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-768x170.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-1536x340.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-2048x454.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1971-3-1200x266.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the image above for a higher resolution version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I climbed up to the bell level of the tower of the Cohasset Meetinghouse, because someone wanted to know if our bell was cast by Paul Revere (it was not). While I was up there, I took a panoramic photo. Not much of a view, to be honest \u2014 the tower isn&#8217;t all that tall, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/09\/view-from-the-bell-tower-of-a-1747-meetinghouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;View from the bell tower of a 1747 meetinghouse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[949],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-massachusetts","tag-cohasset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12397,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions\/12397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}