{"id":81503,"date":"2026-03-19T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81503"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:35:54","slug":"priests-dog-becomes-viral-star-for-ringing-church-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/priests-dog-becomes-viral-star-for-ringing-church-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest\u2019s Dog Becomes Viral Star for Ringing Church Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i>Greek City Times:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dog-bell-ringing-crete-public-domain.jpg\" alt=\"Dog bell-ringing\" width=\"415\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"skrollable skrollable-between\" data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"680\">The incident took place in a mountainous village in southern Crete, where the pet of a local priest\u2014known as Father Giannis\u2014actively assists with church duties. The dog has learned to ring the church bell with remarkable accuracy, effectively acting as a \u201cbell ringer\u201d for the parish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"skrollable skrollable-between\" data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"856\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=950342300765566\">A video shared by\u00a0<em><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Diasoste ti Mesara<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0has already surpassed 730,000 views, quickly spreading across social media platforms and drawing widespread attention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773912954\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Priest\u2019s Dog Becomes Viral Star for Ringing Church Bell\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Greek City Times: The incident took place in a mountainous village in southern Crete, where the pet of a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}