{"id":1285,"date":"2017-11-05T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:24:55","slug":"alcoholics-anonymous-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A group meets in our parish hall every week of the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An AA group meets every Monday of the year in St Thomas\u2019 hall from 7.30-9.30pm. All are welcome to attend.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1286 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AA.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. <strong>There are no dues or fees<\/strong> for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.<\/p>\n<p>AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organisation or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> or call 0845 769 7555.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group meets in our parish hall every week of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-1285","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-kJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AA.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}