{"id":28520,"date":"2011-09-30T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_god_not_you_darling_atkinsons_qualify_attack_on_smug_clerics\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:00:49","slug":"church_times_god_not_you_darling_atkinsons_qualify_attack_on_smug_clerics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28520","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) \u201d\u02dcGod, not you, darling!\u2019 Atkinsons qualify attack on smug clerics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Atkinson, the comedian famed for his portrayal of comedy vicars, was this week expecting a backlash, after accusing Church of England clergy of being smug, arrogant, and conceited.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview in Saturday\u2019s Times, Mr Atkinson said: \u201cI used to think that the vicars that I played . . . were unreasonable satires on well-meaning individuals but, actually, so many of the clerics that I\u2019ve met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extra\u00c2\u00adordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extra\u00c2\u00adordin\u00c2\u00adarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. Increasingly, I believe that all the mud that Richard Curtis and I threw at them through endless sketches that we\u2019ve done is more than deserved.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/content.asp?id=118588\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Atkinson, the comedian famed for his portrayal of comedy vicars, was this week expecting a backlash, after accusing Church of England clergy of being smug, arrogant, and conceited. In an interview in Saturday\u2019s Times, Mr Atkinson said: \u201cI used<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28520\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520","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=28520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}