{"id":1657,"date":"2007-09-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jim_mcgreevey_to_begin_episcopal_seminary_classes\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:44:00","slug":"jim_mcgreevey_to_begin_episcopal_seminary_classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Jim McGreevey to begin Episcopal seminary classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McGreevey, the nation&#8217;s first openly gay governor, is returning to the classroom Tuesday as a seminary student.<\/p>\n<p>The former New Jersey governor will begin full-time studies at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in Chelsea, where he will pursue a three-year Master of Divinity program.<\/p>\n<p>McGreevey, 50, switched denominations from Roman Catholic to Episcopalian earlier this year and has expressed an interest in becoming a priest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that Jim McGreevey finds some contentment and satisfaction in his new role as an Episcopalian priest,&#8221; said Tom Giblin, the Democratic Party chairman during McGreevey&#8217;s run for governor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2007\/09\/01\/2007-09-01_jim_mcgreevey_to_begin_episcopal_seminar.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McGreevey, the nation&#8217;s first openly gay governor, is returning to the classroom Tuesday as a seminary student. The former New Jersey governor will begin full-time studies at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in Chelsea, where he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1657\">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":[36,66,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}