{"id":12728,"date":"2009-05-10T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T23:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mps_prestige_at_low_ebb_lord_george_carey\/"},"modified":"2009-05-10T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T23:31:35","slug":"mps_prestige_at_low_ebb_lord_george_carey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12728","title":{"rendered":"MPs&#39; prestige at low ebb &#8211; Lord George Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s moral authority has slumped to its &#8220;lowest ebb in living memory&#8221;, former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has said.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Carey told the News of the World that recent leaked reports about MPs&#8217; expenses had shaken trust in politics.<\/p>\n<p>He said the revelations had exposed the &#8220;clawing greed&#8221; at the heart of Westminster&#8217;s &#8220;culture of abuse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8042214.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s moral authority has slumped to its &#8220;lowest ebb in living memory&#8221;, former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has said. Lord Carey told the News of the World that recent leaked reports about MPs&#8217; expenses had shaken trust in politics.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12728\">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":[39,40,50,199,168,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","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=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}