{"id":27189,"date":"2011-07-10T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_church_of_england_wedding_price_rise_rejected\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:30:05","slug":"bbc_church_of_england_wedding_price_rise_rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27189","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Church of England wedding price rise rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to increase the price of weddings and funerals by 50% have been rejected by the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>A standard national fee of \u00c2\u00a3425 for a wedding and \u00c2\u00a3150 for a funeral would have been imposed, with parishes banned from charging extra for services such as heating, vergers and administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Church&#8217;s law-making body, the General Synod, felt a price rise would discourage couples marrying in church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-14089922\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to increase the price of weddings and funerals by 50% have been rejected by the Church of England. A standard national fee of \u00c2\u00a3425 for a wedding and \u00c2\u00a3150 for a funeral would have been imposed, with parishes banned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27189\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,389,149,199,183,98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27189","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-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27189","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=27189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}