{"id":22162,"date":"2010-10-03T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_alan_wilson_on_the_process_whereby_people_are_elected_to_general_syn\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:30:00","slug":"bishop_alan_wilson_on_the_process_whereby_people_are_elected_to_general_syn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22162","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Alan Wilson on the Process whereby People are Elected to General Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promise I\u2019m almost through with General Synod elections but I want to thank various people for emails and other messages about ways to make the process simpler, more informative and transparent. There\u2019s a way to go, but a few simple steps with the right technology would go a long way to help, but not till next time round.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to share finally, however something I would find it hard to believe if several people whose judgment I trust had not told me it was so. Apparently an elector at an election meeting asked candidates to state to which relevant organisations they belong. All but one candidate did the obvious and said, but one who shall be nameless simply refused to answer the question. Only having a tiny number of electors present makes this kind of sheer arrogance possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishopalan.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/magical-mystery-election.html?showComment=1286013095105\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise I\u2019m almost through with General Synod elections but I want to thank various people for emails and other messages about ways to make the process simpler, more informative and transparent. There\u2019s a way to go, but a few<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22162\">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":[36,40,74,389,635,168,177,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162","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=22162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}