{"id":1656,"date":"2007-09-01T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/central_florida_bishop_nixes_trinity_prep_play\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:28:00","slug":"central_florida_bishop_nixes_trinity_prep_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida Bishop nixes Trinity Prep play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school theater production aimed to &#8220;push the limits,&#8221; and it did &#8212; way too far for its conservative Episcopal bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity Preparatory School canceled its opening-night performance of La Cage aux Folles on Friday at the request of Bishop John Howe, head of the Diocese of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His request was not to stage the production, and we decided to honor his request,&#8221; said Headmaster Craig Maughan, who called off Friday&#8217;s and tonight&#8217;s planned performances. &#8220;I met with the cast and all the people involved in the production and announced the decision and explained it to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orl-play0107sep01,0,2854812.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/education\/orl-orlacage3007aug30,0,6574465.story\">Some background from yesterday&#8217;s article in the paper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school theater production aimed to &#8220;push the limits,&#8221; and it did &#8212; way too far for its conservative Episcopal bishop. Trinity Preparatory School canceled its opening-night performance of La Cage aux Folles on Friday at the request of Bishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1656\">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":[36,39,66,108,372,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}