{"id":39943,"date":"2013-09-07T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-dispatch_j-c-_michael_allen_former_dean_of_christ_church_cathedral_in_\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T23:00:04","slug":"post-dispatch_j-c-_michael_allen_former_dean_of_christ_church_cathedral_in_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39943","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Dispatch) J.C. Michael Allen, Former dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Saint Louis, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.C. Michael Allen didn\u2019t consider himself religious. But that was before he found himself interviewing a controversial Episcopal priest as a writer for Look magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The priest was James Albert Pike and he spoke of racism, abortion, birth control and exploitation of workers.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was taken with Pike\u2019s activism and told him: \u201cIf I could believe in God, I\u2019d become a priest.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Allen was baptized soon after. He went on to become an ordained Episcopal minister and the dean, or head priest, at Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral in downtown St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/obituaries\/rev-j-c-michael-allen-dies-activist-priest-who-once\/article_ef0717fd-198b-51da-a747-4fdd8d5ac28d.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.C. Michael Allen didn\u2019t consider himself religious. But that was before he found himself interviewing a controversial Episcopal priest as a writer for Look magazine. The priest was James Albert Pike and he spoke of racism, abortion, birth control and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39943\">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":[36,48,186,438,66,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943","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=39943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}