{"id":70219,"date":"2015-04-22T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/time-for-reflection\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:59:00","slug":"time-for-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/time-for-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Rev Dr\u00a0Robert Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, addressed Scottish Parliament in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishparliament.tv\/category.aspx?id=40\">Time for Reflection <\/a>on Tuesday 21 April.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Scottish Parliament, Bishop Bob also met with MSPs\u00a0representing areas of the North East of Scotland, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Key topics discussed included recruitment of people to the area, especially in the teaching and medical professions and how the\u00a0general disproportionate property prices and lack of housing availability can inhibit many people from moving in\u00a0to the area.\u00a0 The opportunities and quality of life prospects that the\u00a0North East and surrounding areas, as well as the City of Aberdeen itself,\u00a0can offer were discussed and concern was raised that not enough is done to promote this.\u00a0It was suggested that\u00a0a wider transfer of training skills across the country could be encouraged, to enable an increase in both new and more traditional skills being brought into the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10438\" src=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001.jpg\" alt=\"001\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/001-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rt Rev Dr\u00a0Robert Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen &amp; Orkney, addressed Scottish Parliament in Time for Reflection on Tuesday 21 April. During his visit to Scottish Parliament, Bishop Bob also met with MSPs\u00a0representing areas of the North East of Scotland, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Key topics discussed included recruitment of people to the area, especially in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}