{"id":31658,"date":"2012-03-30T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_martin_beckford-does_anyone_want_to_be_archbishop_of_canterbury\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T19:05:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:05:56","slug":"cen_martin_beckford-does_anyone_want_to_be_archbishop_of_canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31658","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Martin Beckford&#8211;Does anyone want to be Archbishop of Canterbury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;front-runners to succeed Rowan are not just coyly denying any interest in the post \u201d\u201c they are actively saying it is an impossible one.<br \/>\nFirst to make this claim was Nick Baines (currently at 7\/1 to move into Lambeth Palace, according to William Hill\u2019s odds), who declared on his blog last September: \u201cYou\u2019d have to be out of your mind to want to be Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is that whoever is asked to do it next will have to be dragged to the seat.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>{and]&#8230;Graham James said: \u201cI have served as a chaplain to an Archbishop of Canterbury and it was an impossible job then, and I think it\u2019s more impossible now. Only those who don\u2019t recognise its difficulties could possibly want to do it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religiousintelligence.org\/churchnewspaper\/?p=24340\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;front-runners to succeed Rowan are not just coyly denying any interest in the post \u201d\u201c they are actively saying it is an impossible one. First to make this claim was Nick Baines (currently at 7\/1 to move into Lambeth Palace,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31658\">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":[36,39,50,381,74,67,389,635,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31658","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=31658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}