{"id":31521,"date":"2012-03-22T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_pastoral_letter_from_the_episcopal_bishop_of_maine\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:15:46","slug":"a_pastoral_letter_from_the_episcopal_bishop_of_maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31521","title":{"rendered":"A Pastoral Letter from the Episcopal Bishop of Maine&#8211;Covenant, Same Sex Unions Addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note that the page from the diocese introducing the letter with accompanying links may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalmaine.org\/index.php?view=article&#038;catid=1:latest-news&#038;id=164:pastoral-letter-from-bishop-stephen-t-lane&#038;tmpl=component&#038;print=1&#038;layout=default&#038;page=\">be found there<\/a>).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This summer&#8217;s General Convention may authorize the use of a blessing service for those dioceses where the bishop gives permission, but that matter has yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/episcopalmaine.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/pastoral-letter-mar-2012.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note that the page from the diocese introducing the letter with accompanying links may be found there). This summer&#8217;s General Convention may authorize the use of a blessing service for those dioceses where the bishop gives permission, but that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31521\">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":[36,66,378,514,79,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-general-convention","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521","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=31521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}