{"id":38688,"date":"2013-06-13T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_of_london-baby_boomers_are_now_absorbing_more_than_their_fair_share\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:15:34","slug":"bishop_of_london-baby_boomers_are_now_absorbing_more_than_their_fair_share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38688","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of London&#8211;Baby boomers are now \u201cabsorbing\u201d\u009d more than their fair share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baby boomers are a \u201cfortunate generation\u201d\u009d who have enjoyed dramatic improvements in living standards but are now \u201cabsorbing\u201d\u009d more than their fair share of taxpayers\u2019 money, one of the Church of England\u2019s most senior clerics has suggested.<br \/>\nThe Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, who is 65, said there were \u201csevere questions\u201d\u009d about the share of government spending that goes on his own generation.<br \/>\nHe said the world was in the midst of a transformation that had left many believing that our best days could be \u201cbehind us\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10113694\/Take-less-bishop-tells-baby-boomers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby boomers are a \u201cfortunate generation\u201d\u009d who have enjoyed dramatic improvements in living standards but are now \u201cabsorbing\u201d\u009d more than their fair share of taxpayers\u2019 money, one of the Church of England\u2019s most senior clerics has suggested. The Bishop of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38688\">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":[36,39,40,50,103,74,389,635,149,199,168,136,151,108,587,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-middle-age","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-taxes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688","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=38688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}