{"id":18042,"date":"2010-02-22T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/west_yorkshire_churches_general_election_warning\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T01:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T01:10:06","slug":"west_yorkshire_churches_general_election_warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18042","title":{"rendered":"West Yorkshire Churches&#39; General Election warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior church leaders in West Yorkshire have called on politicians to focus on narrowing the gap between rich and poor during the General Election.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint declaration, the leaders of all the major churches in the region warned that inequality &#8220;strains the sinews of society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Every Person Matters&#8221; statement was signed on Ash Wednesday in Bradford and states: &#8220;Nationally, and across Yorkshire, the wide gap between the richest and poorest people brings mental and physical illness, rising crime and fear of crime, and lowers educational results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An unsustainable divide between levels of wealth and poverty leads to disrespect for other people and a strain on family life and social order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk\/news\/West-Yorkshire-Churches39-General-Election.6088851.jp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior church leaders in West Yorkshire have called on politicians to focus on narrowing the gap between rich and poor during the General Election. In a joint declaration, the leaders of all the major churches in the region warned that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18042\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,74,389,199,154,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042","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=18042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}