{"id":38834,"date":"2013-06-29T23:04:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/economist_there_will_always_be_an_england\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T23:04:45","slug":"economist_there_will_always_be_an_england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38834","title":{"rendered":"[Economist] There will always be an England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT WOULD make a perfect story-line for a soap opera set in Anytown, Middle England. The church of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stbarnabasgillingham.com\">Saint Barnabas<\/a>, in Gillingham south-east of London, is an imposing red-brick structure of the Victorian era. It hasn&#8217;t had a permanent vicar since 2007, but a retired one has kept up a decent cycle of services. The permanent congregation is small (there is an electoral roll of 39) but dedicated, and there is a much larger group of people who appreciate the building. A maiden lady recently bequeathed part of her savings to the church and the money helped restore some fine stained-glass windows. It&#8217;s within walking distance of several schools. Earlier this month, the church had an open weekend, and lots of local folk came to enjoy harmless pleasures like a treasure-hunt, bingo and a barbecue.<\/p>\n<p>If it were up to the congregation, the church would surely survive. But the Church of England system vests huge power in the bishop &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2013\/06\/anglican-church-building\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT WOULD make a perfect story-line for a soap opera set in Anytown, Middle England. The church of Saint Barnabas, in Gillingham south-east of London, is an imposing red-brick structure of the Victorian era. It hasn&#8217;t had a permanent vicar<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38834\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38834","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}