{"id":30222,"date":"2012-01-10T02:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_birmingham_news_profile_of_alabama_episcopal_bishop_kee_sloan\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T02:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:52:05","slug":"a_birmingham_news_profile_of_alabama_episcopal_bishop_kee_sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30222","title":{"rendered":"A Birmingham News Profile of Alabama Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop John McKee &#8216;Kee&#8217;] Sloan, a soft-spoken man known for his work with the disabled in summer programs at Camp McDowell, has a firm grasp of how he wants to lead the diocese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe diocesan office should not be detached, remote, long-distance,\u201d\u009d Sloan said. \u201cIt has to be more hands-on, with trust and affection.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Sloan assumes the reins as a diocesan leader after watching for years as liberals and conservatives battled over issues related to the growing acceptance of openly practicing homosexuals as priests and bishops. That caused defections and ill feelings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2012\/01\/bishop_kee_sloan_officially_ta.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Bishop John McKee &#8216;Kee&#8217;] Sloan, a soft-spoken man known for his work with the disabled in summer programs at Camp McDowell, has a firm grasp of how he wants to lead the diocese. \u201cThe diocesan office should not be detached,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30222\">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":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222","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=30222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}