{"id":26617,"date":"2011-06-09T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_strange_story_of_one_time_episcopal_bishop_william_montgomery_brown\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:00:51","slug":"the_strange_story_of_one_time_episcopal_bishop_william_montgomery_brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26617","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Story of one time Episcopal Bishop William Montgomery Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He left Arkansas in 1911, obsessed with the idea that he held the key to world salvation. He and Ella came back to Galion, where he had a nervous breakdown. He was granted a year&#8217;s leave of absence from his duties in Arkansas. During his recuperation, the bishop began reading the works of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>He resigned his position in April 1912 with the understanding that he could keep his seat in the House of Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>From 1912 to 1920, Brown underwent a startling conversion process and embraced Marxism and socialism. Brown&#8217;s acceptance of socialism and Marxism led him to communism. It was during this time that the prominent socialist Eugene Debs visited often.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com\/article\/20110608\/NEWS01\/106080303\/Bishop-Brown-s-life-full-drama\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He left Arkansas in 1911, obsessed with the idea that he held the key to world salvation. He and Ella came back to Galion, where he had a nervous breakdown. He was granted a year&#8217;s leave of absence from his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26617\">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":[36,48,39,50,209,186,66,117,108,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26617","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=26617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}