{"id":1432,"date":"2007-08-18T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/from_the_nassau_guardian_reggae_music_and_the_anglican_church\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:41:00","slug":"from_the_nassau_guardian_reggae_music_and_the_anglican_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"From the Nassau Guardian: Reggae music and the Anglican Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the congregation at St. Matthew&#8217;s Anglican Church or Christ The King Church, belting out the Bob Marley hit &#8220;One Love&#8221; during Sunday mass?<\/p>\n<p>Well if you&#8217;re shocked, don&#8217;t be, because it just could happen, and as a matter of fact Jamaican parishes plan to include the lyrics of songs from two of the country&#8217;s most famed reggae artists \u201d\u201c Bob Marley and Peter Tosh \u201d\u201c in the next publication of its church hymnal.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago Kimone Thompson, a Jamaican Observer staff member, reported that Anglicans are &#8220;going reggae&#8221;, after an announcement by The Reverend Canon Ernle Gordon, the rector of St Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, at the Michael Manley awards function for community self-reliance at the Little Theatre in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/religion\/311305285231292.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the congregation at St. Matthew&#8217;s Anglican Church or Christ The King Church, belting out the Bob Marley hit &#8220;One Love&#8221; during Sunday mass? Well if you&#8217;re shocked, don&#8217;t be, because it just could happen, and as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1432\">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":[36,48,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}