{"id":111923,"date":"2022-05-06T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111923"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:52:02","slug":"guardian-st-pauls-cathedral-to-admit-girls-to-choir-for-first-time-in-900-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111923","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) St Paul\u2019s Cathedral to admit girls to choir for first time in 900 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Paul\u2019s Cathedral is to admit girls to its internationally renowned choir, breaking a tradition stretching back 900 years.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes 31 years after Salisbury became the first Anglican cathedral in England to offer girls places in its choir. Many others, including York Minster, Durham and Exeter, have followed suit.<\/p>\n<p>St Paul\u2019s choir performs at services and events of national importance as well as daily liturgies and three times on Sundays. It will perform at a service of thanksgiving next month for the Queen\u2019s platinum jubilee celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The choir currently comprises 22 choristers alongside professional singers known as vicars choral. The first girls will join in 2025 after boarding school facilities have been expanded and funds raised for scholarships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/st-pauls-cathedral-to-admit-girls-to-choir-900-years\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">St Paul\u2019s Cathedral to admit girls to choir for first time in 900 years <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nFyxOytkOX\">https:\/\/t.co\/nFyxOytkOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Guardian (@guardian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian\/status\/1522309601244372993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 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>St Paul\u2019s Cathedral is to admit girls to its internationally renowned choir, breaking a tradition stretching back 900 years. The move comes 31 years after Salisbury became the first Anglican cathedral in England to offer girls places in its choir.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111923\">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":[389,183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111923","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=111923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111927,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111923\/revisions\/111927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}