{"id":29252,"date":"2011-11-10T21:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ncc_leader_to_step_down\/"},"modified":"2011-11-10T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:59:57","slug":"ncc_leader_to_step_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29252","title":{"rendered":"NCC Leader to Step Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group\u2019s governing board that he must \u201cimmediately and significantly\u201d\u009d reduce his activity, especially the frequent travel required by the job, under the advice of his cardiologist.<\/p>\n<p>A minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Kinnamon was elected to lead the New York-based NCC in 2007, amid staff layoffs and budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethicsdaily.com\/ncc-leader-to-step-down-cms-18807\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons. Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group\u2019s governing board that he must \u201cimmediately and significantly\u201d\u009d reduce his activity, especially the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29252\">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":[48,39,42,158,104,435,154,184,108,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-united-church-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252","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=29252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}