{"id":31073,"date":"2012-02-27T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_letter_from_europe_anglicans_seek_a_quiet_strength\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:00:39","slug":"ny_times_letter_from_europe_anglicans_seek_a_quiet_strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31073","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Letter from Europe) Anglicans Seek a Quiet Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the central heating broke down at a North London church midway through a snap of icy weather the other day, the vicar offered the faithful a choice: Attend another church for a cozier celebration, or display what he wryly called \u201cmuscular Christianity\u201d\u009d by worshiping in a side chapel in their own, unheated church.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not, the muscular, if shivery, Christians seemed to outnumber those who headed for warmer pews \u201d\u201d an indication, some might argue, that Britain\u2019s established state religion can draw on doughty reserves in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n<p>It might need to&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/28\/world\/europe\/28iht-letter28.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the central heating broke down at a North London church midway through a snap of icy weather the other day, the vicar offered the faithful a choice: Attend another church for a cozier celebration, or display what he wryly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31073\">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":[36,39,42,74,389,155,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073","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=31073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}