{"id":1294,"count":1,"description":"Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) was a Particular Baptist preacher and hymn writer. He was appointed the pastor of a church in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, where he served for fifty-five years. As he was in the habit of composing a new hymn for every sermon, he is the author of more than 800 hymns.","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/benjamin-beddome\/","name":"Benjamin Beddome","slug":"benjamin-beddome","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}