{"id":1352,"date":"2006-06-20T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T08:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2006-06-20T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T09:03:08","slug":"a-woman-in-charge-the-shock-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"A woman in charge. The shock, the horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican church is coming over all faint and having to lie down in a darkened room &#8211; or at least large parts of it are &#8211; after the US Episcopal Church (part of the international Anglican communion, as they call it) <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/religion\/Story\/0,,1801485,00.html\">elected a woman, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada, as presiding bishop<\/a>. What&#8217;s even worse, a <i>liberal<\/i> woman.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a very necessary step forward to me, since:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only three churches within the 38 provinces of the Anglican communion currently ordain women bishops: the US, Canada and New Zealand, though a further 11, including Ireland and Scotland have amended their canons to enable them to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican church is coming over all faint and having to lie down in a darkened room &#8211; or at least large parts of it are &#8211; after the US Episcopal Church (part of the international Anglican communion, as they call it) elected a woman, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada, as presiding bishop. What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}