{"id":39451,"date":"2013-08-08T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_tooley-the_tec_faith_of_the_genteel_virginia_of_the_past\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:30:56","slug":"mark_tooley-the_tec_faith_of_the_genteel_virginia_of_the_past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39451","title":{"rendered":"Mark Tooley&#8211;the TEC Faith of the Genteel Virginia of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Jr. was buried on Saturday in Winchester Virginia after a brief funeral at Christ Episcopal Church, with which the Byrd dynasty was long associated. Presiding at the funeral was his former colleague retired U.S. Senator John Danforth, an ordained Episcopal clergyman who also presided at President Reagan\u2019s funeral&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>At the funeral at Christ Episcopal, Danforth, who said Byrd invited him to conduct his funeral several years ago, hailed Byrd for his \u201ccheerfulness and civility.\u201d\u009d The old Episcopal elite is largely fading from the scene, as that denomination becomes marginal, and its historic ethos, once rooted in Virginia\u2019s socially stratified agrarian Tidewater, is mostly forgotten in the modern world of suburbs and megachurches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2013\/08\/05\/genteel-virginia-episcopalianism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Jr. was buried on Saturday in Winchester Virginia after a brief funeral at Christ Episcopal Church, with which the Byrd dynasty was long associated. Presiding at the funeral was his former colleague retired U.S. Senator<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39451\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,209,438,66,133,184,151,108,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39451","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=39451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}