{"id":25929,"date":"2011-04-30T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T01:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh-intricacies_of_anglican_worship_on_display_in_royal_wedding\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T01:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T01:16:29","slug":"smh-intricacies_of_anglican_worship_on_display_in_royal_wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25929","title":{"rendered":"SMH&#8211;Intricacies of Anglican worship on display in Royal Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the book and &#8221;explicitly Christian&#8221;. That was the assessment by one of Australia&#8217;s Anglican leaders of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, said the wedding ceremony &#8211; conducted to a revised 1928 Church of England rite &#8211; was &#8221;in a way more Christian than it needed to be&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It was not sentimental about marriage,&#8221; said Bishop Forsyth. &#8221;The [biblical] reading was not gushy and, rather than apologise for being Christian, the service was generous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/royal-wedding\/intricacies-of-anglican-worship-on-display-20110429-1e0xi.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the book and &#8221;explicitly Christian&#8221;. That was the assessment by one of Australia&#8217;s Anglican leaders of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey. The Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, said the wedding ceremony &#8211;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25929\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,395,74,389,579,199,114,183,98,184,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","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=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}