{"id":29041,"date":"2011-10-30T22:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T22:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_occupy_london_silence_of_once-critical_clerics_is_infuriating_but_\/"},"modified":"2011-10-30T22:49:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T22:49:32","slug":"guardian_occupy_london_silence_of_once-critical_clerics_is_infuriating_but_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29041","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Occupy London: silence of once-critical clerics is infuriating but understandable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The archbishops&#8217; silence \u201d\u201c and that of the wider church \u201d\u201c on the crisis at the cathedral is extraordinary, then, given their past remarks. But the truth is they gain nothing from commenting on it.<\/p>\n<p>Siding with protesters would undermine the bishop of London and the dean of St Paul&#8217;s, who are already under fire for their actions, and represent an extrajudicial intervention not often seen in the Church of England. To ally themselves with their beleaguered colleagues would make them hypocrites. Those who have aired their views are retired \u201d\u201c like Lord Carey \u201d\u201c or relatively unknown outside Anglican circles.<\/p>\n<p>However infuriating their reticence, the clerics who bashed the bankers during the global financial meltdown are unlikely to put themselves forward to debate the merits or otherwise of Occupy London, a subject made toxic by the prospect of eviction, but it is inconceivable that they do not have opinions on the events at St Paul&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/oct\/30\/occupy-london-church-clerics-silent\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The archbishops&#8217; silence \u201d\u201c and that of the wider church \u201d\u201c on the crisis at the cathedral is extraordinary, then, given their past remarks. But the truth is they gain nothing from commenting on it. Siding with protesters would undermine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29041\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,67,389,149,199,435,184,151,108,599,585,596,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29041","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-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stock-market","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29041","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=29041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}