{"id":36158,"date":"2012-12-11T16:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_local_article_about_the_approval_of_same_sex_blessings_in_east_tenn\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:45:01","slug":"a_local_article_about_the_approval_of_same_sex_blessings_in_east_tenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36158","title":{"rendered":"A Local Article about the Approval of same sex blessings in East Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to allow same-sex blessings did not surprise St. James Episcopal Reverend John Mark Wiggers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our church was moving in this direction for a while and so I expected this to happen, that we would approve a rite of same-sex blessing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the church&#8217;s evolution has also impacted whether some of it members stay loyal to its teachings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbir.com\/news\/article\/245014\/2\/Episcopal-church-approves-same-sex-blessings-in-East-TN\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to allow same-sex blessings did not surprise St. James Episcopal Reverend John Mark Wiggers. &#8220;Our church was moving in this direction for a while and so I expected this to happen, that we would approve a rite of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36158\">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":[36,48,39,576,175,66,168,183,184,177,514,112,79,372,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158","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=36158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}