{"id":27337,"date":"2011-07-18T22:31:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/abcfires_adviser_the_rev_george_pitcher_over_outspoken_attacks_on_coalition\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T22:31:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:31:45","slug":"abcfires_adviser_the_rev_george_pitcher_over_outspoken_attacks_on_coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27337","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury fires adviser the Rev George Pitcher over outspoken attacks on coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rowan Williams is understood to have lost confidence in the Rev George Pitcher, his public affairs secretary, and agreed that he should leave his post at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the situation came to a head when Mr Pitcher made a crude joke about the Archbishop in the Daily Telegraph&#8217;s diary column following criticism of Dr Williams&#8217; attacks on the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Mr Pitcher had played a key part in arranging the Archbishop&#8217;s guest editorship of the New Statesman magazine last month, which Dr Williams used to launch a strident critique of David Cameron&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8643734\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-fires-adviser-Rev-George-Pitcher-over-outpoken-attacks-on-coalition.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rowan Williams is understood to have lost confidence in the Rev George Pitcher, his public affairs secretary, and agreed that he should leave his post at the end of the summer. It is understood the situation came to a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27337\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,67,389,199,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337","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=27337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}