{"id":100394,"date":"2021-03-16T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100394"},"modified":"2021-03-16T06:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:13:13","slug":"somerset-county-gazette-bishop-of-bath-and-wells-retires-due-to-leukaemia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100394","title":{"rendered":"(Somerset County Gazette) Bishop of Bath and Wells retires due to leukaemia battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Bishop of Bath and Wells is retiring early due to his cancer battle.<\/p>\n<p>The Right Reverend Peter Hancock is currently recovering from treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia.<\/p>\n<p>He has been receiving treatment since last August.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the diocese, he wrote that while he had been hoping to return to work before long, his hospital consultant has said he will need to spend many months recovering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo after much prayer and reflection, I believe this means that I need to take early retirement on medical grounds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk\/news\/19160274.bishop-bath-wells-retires-due-leukaemia-battle\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bishop of Bath and Wells retires due to leukaemia battle <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y8yG5ZwV9T\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y8yG5ZwV9T<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gp1FazLKpF\">pic.twitter.com\/gp1FazLKpF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bridgwater Mercury (@BWMercury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BWMercury\/status\/1371408854567686144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Bishop of Bath and Wells is retiring early due to his cancer battle. The Right Reverend Peter Hancock is currently recovering from treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia. He has been receiving treatment since last August. In a letter to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=100394\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100397,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394\/revisions\/100397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}