{"id":35483,"date":"2012-11-05T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_andrew_brown-wanted_new_archbishop_of_canterbury_must_have_plans_\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:05:40","slug":"guardian_andrew_brown-wanted_new_archbishop_of_canterbury_must_have_plans_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35483","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Andrew Brown&#8211;Wanted: New Archbishop of Canterbury \u201d\u201c must have plans to fill the pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Christianity dies in England, it will die first in the countryside. This may seem paradoxical. When we think of English Christianity, we think of medieval churches standing at the heart of quiet villages. Surely the most traditional parts of the land would cling to traditional ways such as Christianity? But the traditions have largely died, and the churches with them.<\/p>\n<p>This long, slow trend is what should really worry whoever takes over as Archbishop of Canterbury from Rowan Williams \u201d\u201c an announcement on which is imminent. To understand the problem, I went in search of the worst jobs in the Church of England&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/31\/archbishop-canterbury-church-of-england?CMP=email\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Christianity dies in England, it will die first in the countryside. This may seem paradoxical. When we think of English Christianity, we think of medieval churches standing at the heart of quiet villages. Surely the most traditional parts of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35483\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,67,389,635,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35483","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-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483","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=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}