{"id":7432,"date":"2013-07-04T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2013-07-04T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T09:14:12","slug":"an-academics-response-to-the-westminstwer-hall-bats-and-churches-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7432","title":{"rendered":"An academic&#8217;s response to the Westminster Hall Bats and Churches Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7433\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/copper-bats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7433\" alt=\"Photo Jon Dawson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/copper-bats.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/copper-bats.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/copper-bats-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Jon Dawson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There has continued to be lots of comments about Sir Tim Baldry&#8217;s\u00a0 recent speech at Westminster Hall.\u00a0 I make no apology for going back to the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kirsty Park of Stirling University has just posted a comment on her <a href=\"http:\/\/sti-cs.org\/2013\/07\/02\/should-we-restrict-bats-to-farm-barns\/\">blog .<\/a> (Kirsty&#8217;s PhD was bat related and she knows of what she speaks).<\/p>\n<p>I should point out to those of a nervous disposition that these are not real bats\u00a0 and that the bats living in our churches are not this size.<\/p>\n<p>They are made by greensmith (some one who works with copper). I stole this photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/2dales.org.uk\/churches\/st-andrews\/bats.html\">http:\/\/2dales.org.uk\/churches\/st-andrews\/bats.html <\/a>which led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graculus.co.uk\/section507043_400860.html#photos_id=9985013\">Graculus sculptures. <\/a>Being a Noggin the Nog fan I headed for a closer look. Yes I know this isn&#8217;t a bat but it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> fabulous<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7434\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Graculus-sculptures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7434\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7434\" alt=\"Phoenix by Graculus sculptuires\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Graculus-sculptures.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Graculus-sculptures.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Graculus-sculptures-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phoenix by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graculus.co.uk\/section507043_400860.html#photos_id=9985013\">Graculus sculptuires<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; There has continued to be lots of comments about Sir Tim Baldry&#8217;s\u00a0 recent speech at Westminster Hall.\u00a0 I make no apology for going back to the subject. &nbsp; Dr Kirsty Park of Stirling University has just posted a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7432\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bats-and-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}