{"id":3433,"date":"2007-12-09T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/british_archbishop_in_symbolic_mugabe_protest\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:04:00","slug":"british_archbishop_in_symbolic_mugabe_protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"British archbishop in symbolic Mugabe protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Black British archbishop symbolically cut up his clerical collar on Sunday and vowed not to wear one again until Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe steps down from power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need the world to unite against Mugabe and his regime,&#8221; said John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, pulling out a pair of scissors and making the dramatic gesture during a live television interview.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture came as Mugabe was accused of undermining the image of Africa during a summit of European and African leaders in Lisbon this weekend. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has boycotted the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Sentamu noted that, as a bishop, his stiff white collar &#8220;is what I wear to identify myself, that I&#8217;m a clergyman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=3&#038;art_id=nw20071209131733205C727060\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black British archbishop symbolically cut up his clerical collar on Sunday and vowed not to wear one again until Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe steps down from power. &#8220;We need the world to unite against Mugabe and his regime,&#8221; said John<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3433\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","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=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}