{"id":109902,"date":"2022-02-18T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109902"},"modified":"2022-02-18T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:06:07","slug":"itv-dean-of-canterbury-who-became-viral-sensation-with-his-cathedral-cat-during-lockdown-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109902","title":{"rendered":"(ITV) Dean of Canterbury who became viral sensation with his cathedral cat during lockdown to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cp_paragraph _1_t_a tO5_U\">The Dean of Canterbury, who became a viral sensation with his cat during lockdown, will retire on his 75th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cp_paragraph _1_t_a tO5_U\">Robert Willis has been in the role since July 2001 and will step down from the role of Dean on the 16th May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cp_paragraph _1_t_a tO5_U\">Dean Robert&#8217;s daily online Morning Prayer videos, from Canterbury Cathedral, were well known to viewers during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cp_paragraph _1_t_a tO5_U\">Even more well known was his cat Leo, who was <a class=\"cp_link _3ZevO _2YZWj\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meridian\/2020-05-26\/watch-the-moment-leo-the-cat-vanishes-under-the-dean-of-canterbury-s-robes-during-sermon\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\"><span class=\"_2cpba\"><strong class=\"uzKEX\">caught on camera<\/strong><\/span><\/a> wandering into view before disappearing beneath his robes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meridian\/2022-02-17\/dean-of-canterbury-who-became-viral-sensation-with-his-cat-to-retire\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dean of Canterbury, The Very Revd Dr Robert Willis, has announced that he will cease to be Dean at midnight on 16 May 2022, the eve of his 75th birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jynj5xEoS1\">https:\/\/t.co\/jynj5xEoS1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jlptQPdyaQ\">pic.twitter.com\/jlptQPdyaQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canterbury Cathedral (@CburyCathedral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CburyCathedral\/status\/1493903033843003395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2022<\/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 Dean of Canterbury, who became a viral sensation with his cat during lockdown, will retire on his 75th birthday. Robert Willis has been in the role since July 2001 and will step down from the role of Dean on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109902\">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":[389,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109902","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=109902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109906,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109902\/revisions\/109906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}