{"id":35258,"date":"2012-10-23T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_church_of_england_to_overhaul_weddings\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:00:14","slug":"telegraph_church_of_england_to_overhaul_weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35258","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Church of England to overhaul weddings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has set out radical plans to transform the way in which it conducts weddings.<\/p>\n<p>A package of reforms will modernise the marriage service, offering couples the chance to replace traditional aspects with personalised touches.<\/p>\n<p>It will give the go-ahead for glitzy &#8220;Posh and Becks&#8221;-style ceremonies in churches, with Mendelssohn&#8217;s Wedding March being replaced by songs such as Girls by the Sugababes or the theme from Test Match Special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9622963\/Church-to-allow-Posh-and-Becks-style-weddings.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has set out radical plans to transform the way in which it conducts weddings. A package of reforms will modernise the marriage service, offering couples the chance to replace traditional aspects with personalised touches. It will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35258\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,183,98,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258","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=35258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}