{"id":38086,"date":"2013-05-01T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hamilton-based_anglican_bishop_suing_oakville_blogger\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:00:02","slug":"hamilton-based_anglican_bishop_suing_oakville_blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38086","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton-based Anglican bishop suing Oakville blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Niagara is suing a blogger over online material he claims was fashioned to hold the spiritual leader of 25,000 Anglicans up to ridicule and contempt.<\/p>\n<p>The defamation lawsuit claims that Michael Bird, Hamilton-based bishop for the 90 parishes in the diocese, which includes Hamilton, has been pilloried on the blog as a weak, ineffectual leader, portrayed as a thief, described as having a sexual fetish and labelled an atheist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/news\/local\/article\/926995--hamilton-based-anglican-bishop-suing-oakville-blogger\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of Niagara is suing a blogger over online material he claims was fashioned to hold the spiritual leader of 25,000 Anglicans up to ridicule and contempt. The defamation lawsuit claims that Michael Bird, Hamilton-based bishop for the 90<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38086\">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":[36,39,50,388,74,94,207,579,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-blogging-the-internet","category-canada","category-churchstate-matters","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086","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=38086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}