{"id":25856,"date":"2011-04-25T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_canterbury_hails_plan_to_measure_national_happiness\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:49:34","slug":"archbishop_of_canterbury_hails_plan_to_measure_national_happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25856","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury hails plan to measure national happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Williams welcomed the acknowledgment that there is \u201cmore to life\u201d\u009d than individual possessions, and said that street parties being held to mark the royal wedding showed the value of shared celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>However he also suggested that the proposal to devise a \u201cwell-being index\u201d\u009d risked being meaningless if public services enjoyed by young people are axed.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came in his Easter Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, in which the most senior cleric in the Church of England described the joyful shock experienced by Jesus\u2019s disciples after the Resurrection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8471229\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-hails-plan-to-measure-national-happiness.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Williams welcomed the acknowledgment that there is \u201cmore to life\u201d\u009d than individual possessions, and said that street parties being held to mark the royal wedding showed the value of shared celebrations. However he also suggested that the proposal to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25856\">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":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856","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=25856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}