{"id":13881,"date":"2009-07-11T22:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post_gazette_pittsburghs_episcopal_bishop_collects_on_sports_wagers\/"},"modified":"2009-07-11T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T22:02:31","slug":"post_gazette_pittsburghs_episcopal_bishop_collects_on_sports_wagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13881","title":{"rendered":"Post Gazette: Pittsburgh&#39;s Episcopal bishop collects on sports wagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh sports and religion intersected yesterday at the Episcopal Church&#8217;s General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., when Bishop Robert Johnson of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh collected on friendly Super Bowl and Stanley Cup wagers.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Kirk Smith of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona donned Steelers gear and Bishop Wendell Gibbs of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan put on Penguins attire, fulfilling a wager made with Bishop Johnson earlier this year. The two bishops also received team towels, either a Steelers &#8220;Terrible Towel&#8221; marking the team&#8217;s sixth Super Bowl win, or the white rally towel waved by Penguins fans during their run to a third Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09192\/983365-100.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh sports and religion intersected yesterday at the Episcopal Church&#8217;s General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., when Bishop Robert Johnson of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh collected on friendly Super Bowl and Stanley Cup wagers. Bishop Kirk Smith of the Episcopal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13881\">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":[36,66,378,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","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=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}