{"id":31202,"date":"2012-03-06T02:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_lengthy_post-gazette_article_on_the_pittsburgh_episcopal_election\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:30:22","slug":"a_lengthy_post-gazette_article_on_the_pittsburgh_episcopal_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31202","title":{"rendered":"A Lengthy Post-Gazette Article on the upcoming Pittsburgh Episcopal Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Deimel, a member of St. Paul&#8217;s in Mt. Lebanon who blogs on church matters from a liberal perspective, declared his opposition to any local candidate before Father [Scott] Quinn was named. He argued that all local priests carry factional baggage and that the diocese was too ingrown&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. James Simons, a theological conservative who had a leading role in reorganizing the diocese after the split, hasn&#8217;t chosen a candidate yet, and said that the value of an inside candidate depends on the person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be argued both ways,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When you elect from within the diocese, the learning curve is less steep. You don&#8217;t have to learn the history because you lived the history. On the other hand, sometimes it&#8217;s good to have someone looking at things with fresh eyes. It all depends on who that individual is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/12064\/1214133-455.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Deimel, a member of St. Paul&#8217;s in Mt. Lebanon who blogs on church matters from a liberal perspective, declared his opposition to any local candidate before Father [Scott] Quinn was named. He argued that all local priests carry factional<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31202\">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":[36,66,177,372,376,638,379,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-pittsburgh","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31202","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=31202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}