{"id":661,"date":"2026-02-20T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:07:03","slug":"our-community-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/our-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHURCH LINKS<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">St. John the Baptist<br \/>\n23 Shore Street<br \/>\nPort Glasgow<br \/>\nPA14 5HD<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>Parish Priest:<\/strong> Canon Joseph G Balmer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnthebaptist.rcpaisley.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.stjohnthebaptist.rcpaisley.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>St John\u2019s Primary has very close links to the parish of St John\u2019s. Canon Joseph Balmer is a regular visitor to the school, celebrating Mass and visiting the children in their classes.\u00a0 He also works very closely with the school to prepare the children for the Sacraments of Reconciliation (Confession), Holy Eucharist (First Holy Communion) and Confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHURCH LINKS St. John the Baptist 23 Shore Street Port Glasgow PA14 5HD Parish Priest: Canon Joseph G Balmer https:\/\/www.stjohnthebaptist.rcpaisley.org.uk\/ St John\u2019s Primary has very close links to the parish of St John\u2019s. Canon Joseph Balmer is a regular visitor to the school, celebrating Mass and visiting the children in their classes.\u00a0 He also works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/our-community-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Community<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/stjohns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}