{"id":28546,"date":"2011-10-02T04:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sussex_courier_parish_council_prayers_criticised\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T04:52:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:52:45","slug":"sussex_courier_parish_council_prayers_criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28546","title":{"rendered":"(Sussex Courier) Parish Council prayers criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two parish councils are ignoring official guidance by continuing to hold prayers at meetings.<\/p>\n<p>For decades Crowborough Town Council has begun its full monthly meetings with a Christian prayer, and now Mayfield Parish Council is following suit in spite of fears this could be &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the body responsible for local government, the Sussex Association of Local Councils, has intervened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prayers are not part of the parish council&#8217;s duties and cannot be included in the agenda,&#8221; said Jacqui Simes from the association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisissussex.co.uk\/Council-prayers-criticised\/story-13438222-detail\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two parish councils are ignoring official guidance by continuing to hold prayers at meetings. For decades Crowborough Town Council has begun its full monthly meetings with a Christian prayer, and now Mayfield Parish Council is following suit in spite of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28546\">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":[48,39,50,199,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28546","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=28546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}