{"id":40199,"date":"2013-09-23T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/west_virignia_episcopal_diocese_to_allow_for_the_blessing_of_same-sex_coupl\/"},"modified":"2013-09-23T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:20:05","slug":"west_virignia_episcopal_diocese_to_allow_for_the_blessing_of_same-sex_coupl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40199","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Episcopal Diocese to allow for the blessing of same-sex couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church in West Virginia will bless same sex unions, Bishop Michie Klusmeyer announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Klusmeyer said he gave the issue much thought and prayer before making the decision, which he announced in Flatwoods at a three-day convention of the Diocese of West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/News\/201309210037\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Church in West Virginia will bless same sex unions, Bishop Michie Klusmeyer announced Saturday. Klusmeyer said he gave the issue much thought and prayer before making the decision, which he announced in Flatwoods at a three-day convention of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40199\">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":[36,39,576,175,66,168,98,108,514,112,79,372,379,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40199","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=40199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}