{"id":24474,"date":"2011-02-10T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/journal-constitution_atlanta_episcopal_bishop_plans_to_step_aside_in_2012\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:40:31","slug":"journal-constitution_atlanta_episcopal_bishop_plans_to_step_aside_in_2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24474","title":{"rendered":"(Journal-Constitution) Atlanta Episcopal bishop plans to step aside in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexander, who has served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta for about a decade, announced Wednesday he will step aside to return to the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander, 57,  will join Emory University&#8217;s Candler School of Theology in the fall of 2012 as a professor in the practice of liturgy and director of Candler&#8217;s Anglican Studies program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose I&#8217;ve always been a teacher at heart,&#8221; said Alexander. &#8220;I love the classroom, the interchange of ideas, and the joy of watching students grow and mature as thinkers and scholars. The life of a teacher is a wonderful life and I look forward to getting back to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta\/episcopal-bishop-plans-to-833048.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. Rev. J. Neil Alexander, who has served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta for about a decade, announced Wednesday he will step aside to return to the classroom. Alexander, 57, will join Emory University&#8217;s Candler School<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24474\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474","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=24474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}