{"id":40580,"date":"2013-10-17T01:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_martin_archbishop_gitaris_legacy\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T01:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:15:18","slug":"john_martin_archbishop_gitaris_legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40580","title":{"rendered":"(Living Church) John Martin&#8211;Archbishop Gitari\u2019s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in death, the Most Rev. David Mukuba Gitari was a focus of division among his country\u2019s political elite. Government and opposition politicians are reported to have jostled one another while attending his burial in his home district of Kirinyaga.<\/p>\n<p>Gitari, the third Anglican archbishop of Kenya, died September 30 at 76. All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi overflowed October 10 as a congregation of nearly 10,000 turned out for a funeral that lasted more than three hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/livingchurch.org\/archbishop-gitari-legacy\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in death, the Most Rev. David Mukuba Gitari was a focus of division among his country\u2019s political elite. Government and opposition politicians are reported to have jostled one another while attending his burial in his home district of Kirinyaga.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40580\">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":[36,48,50,202,400,74,186,438,329,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-death-burial-funerals","category-kenya","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40580","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=40580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}