{"id":38656,"date":"2013-06-11T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/with_home_in_trenton_new_episcopal_bishop-elect_ready_to_lead\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:00:57","slug":"with_home_in_trenton_new_episcopal_bishop-elect_ready_to_lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38656","title":{"rendered":"With home in Trenton, new New Jersey Episcopal bishop-elect ready to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning this summer, [William \u201cChip\u201d\u009d] Stokes, who will head a diocese that stretches from Elizabeth to Cape May and encompasses two-thirds of the state, will be living in the city of Trenton.<br \/>\nHe will be the first diocesan bishop in 40 years to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was some hope in the diocese that the next bishop would live in Trenton, and we\u2019re very comfortable with that,\u201d\u009d Stokes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I was chosen in part because of my commitment to urban ministries. I grew up in New York City. I\u2019ve been blessed to do a lot of work with diverse communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/mercer\/index.ssf\/2013\/06\/with_home_in_trenton_new_episc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning this summer, [William \u201cChip\u201d\u009d] Stokes, who will head a diocese that stretches from Elizabeth to Cape May and encompasses two-thirds of the state, will be living in the city of Trenton. He will be the first diocesan bishop in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38656\">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":[36,39,66,372,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656","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=38656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}