{"id":1384,"date":"2007-08-15T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_episcopal_priest_in_central_ny_admits_to_sexual_abusing_boys\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:01:00","slug":"former_episcopal_priest_in_central_ny_admits_to_sexual_abusing_boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Former Episcopal priest in Central NY admits to sexual abusing boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York say J. Edward Putnam, 66, recently admitted in a written statement to the bishop that he engaged in &#8220;inappropriate conduct with minors&#8221; while at St. James Episcopal Church in Skaneateles (skan-ee-AT&#8217;-lus).<\/p>\n<p>An investigation begun in May resulted in his being suspended last month from acting as a priest for 20 years. Diocese officials say Putnam, who was ordained in 1970, admitted to sexually abusing the boys from early 1985 to mid-1993.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/newyork\/ny-bc-ny--priest-abuse0814aug14,0,3742693.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York say J. Edward Putnam, 66, recently admitted in a written statement to the bishop that he engaged in &#8220;inappropriate conduct with minors&#8221; while at St. James Episcopal Church in Skaneateles (skan-ee-AT&#8217;-lus).<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1384\">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":[36,48,66,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","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=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}