{"id":20173,"date":"2010-06-06T22:16:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/embattled_bishop_of_ballarat_takes_sick_leave\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T22:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:16:35","slug":"embattled_bishop_of_ballarat_takes_sick_leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20173","title":{"rendered":"Embattled Bishop of Ballarat takes sick leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballarat&#8217;s Anglican bishop, under investigation over complaints of bullying, has taken sick leave amid indications he may resign soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Michael Hough has appointed a Melbourne assistant bishop, Philip Huggins, to take temporary charge of Ballarat, with the blessing of Melbourne Archbishop Philip Freier.<\/p>\n<p>It is extremely unusual for a senior priest from within the diocese not to take charge in the bishop&#8217;s absence, but The Age believes that divisions in Ballarat run so deep that no internal candidate was deemed acceptable to Bishop Hough&#8217;s supporters and critics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/embattled-bishop-takes-sick-leave-20100606-xna6.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballarat&#8217;s Anglican bishop, under investigation over complaints of bullying, has taken sick leave amid indications he may resign soon. Bishop Michael Hough has appointed a Melbourne assistant bishop, Philip Huggins, to take temporary charge of Ballarat, with the blessing of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20173\">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":[36,395,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173","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=20173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}