{"id":31397,"date":"2012-03-16T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_to_step_down\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:59:03","slug":"independent_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan_williams_to_step_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31397","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining his reasons for leaving, Dr Williams said: &#8220;At the end of this year I will have been 10 years in post as Archbishop and just over 20 years as a bishop &#8211; that is part of it, feeling that after 10 years it is proper to pray and reflect and review your options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that there were a number of &#8220;watersheds&#8221; this year, such as the forthcoming vote by the General Synod, the National Assembly of the Church of England, on whether to give final approval to legislation introducing women bishops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A number of what I call watersheds seemed to make this a reasonable moment, at least, to think about moving on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-of-canterbury-rowan-williams-to-step-down-7574986.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining his reasons for leaving, Dr Williams said: &#8220;At the end of this year I will have been 10 years in post as Archbishop and just over 20 years as a bishop &#8211; that is part of it, feeling that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31397\">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":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397","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=31397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}