{"id":35020,"date":"2012-10-10T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_smh_article_on_peter_jensens_final_presidential_address\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:40:17","slug":"an_smh_article_on_peter_jensens_final_presidential_address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35020","title":{"rendered":"An SMH article on Archbishop Peter Jensen&#39;s Final Presidential Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his last presidential speech before retirement, Dr Jensen said society&#8217;s shift towards &#8221;deadly individualism&#8221; had been driven by material wealth and technological mastery.<br \/>\nThe cost of individualism, and the shift to self-love, had consequences for the quality of our community, family life and how we treat death. That was evident in the choice of &#8221;our swan song of this generation&#8221;, Frank Sinatra&#8217;s classic I Did It My Way, Dr Jensen said in his speech, titled &#8221;Last Words&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8221;It seems that we do not need each other as once we did. Nor do we need God. To think that a person is so proud of the phrase &#8216;I did it my way&#8217; that they would use it as a summary of their life&#8217;s achievement reveals an astounding moral ineptitude, a sort of vulgar egotism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/gods-way-smarter-than-sinatras-says-jensen-20121008-279nb.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his last presidential speech before retirement, Dr Jensen said society&#8217;s shift towards &#8221;deadly individualism&#8221; had been driven by material wealth and technological mastery. The cost of individualism, and the shift to self-love, had consequences for the quality of our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35020\">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":[36,395,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020","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=35020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}