{"id":40455,"date":"2013-10-09T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/boston_globe_newtown_conn-_episcopal_priest_speaks_on_gun_violence\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:40:44","slug":"boston_globe_newtown_conn-_episcopal_priest_speaks_on_gun_violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40455","title":{"rendered":"(Boston Globe) Newtown, Conn., Episcopal priest speaks on gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small, quiet town in Fairfield County is a world away from the streets of Dorchester, but the two communities are, in a sense, linked: Both mourn the innocent children they have lost to gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, saw that connection when he and his staff were putting together a day of workshops aimed at helping church members \u201d\u201d including many small-town dwellers and suburbanites \u201d\u201d find ways to help end violence, part of the B-PEACE for Jorge campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Newtown happened, it was three months after Jorge\u2019s death, and it was so clear to all of us that this was not something that just happens in the city,\u201d\u009d Shaw said in an interview in his office last month. \u201cThis happens everywhere.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2013\/10\/08\/newtown-conn-episcopal-priest-speaks-gun-violence\/WOlZnfzNR3jHKeqFjswV5M\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small, quiet town in Fairfield County is a world away from the streets of Dorchester, but the two communities are, in a sense, linked: Both mourn the innocent children they have lost to gun violence. Bishop M. Thomas Shaw,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40455\">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":[36,48,39,50,209,66,435,184,108,372,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40455","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=40455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}