{"id":44322,"date":"2014-05-29T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_city_diary_church_faces_revolt_over_allegedly_immoral_retail_deal\/"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:01:10","slug":"telegraph_city_diary_church_faces_revolt_over_allegedly_immoral_retail_deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44322","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph City Diary) Church faces revolt over allegedly immoral retail deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the ministry will today face further revolt over its decision to let developers turn 7 acres of church land near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire into an out-of-town retail park.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners, who will march on Westminster Abbey at lunchtime, say the \u00c2\u00a315m development, in conjunction with Claymore Group, will \u201cgo against Christian beliefs\u201d\u009d by damaging trade for small businesses in the town centre.<\/p>\n<p>But the church is keeping faith in the controversial project, despite the fact it has been put on hold due to an ongoing legal challenge by protester Victoria Harvey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/comment\/citydiary\/10858914\/City-Diary-Church-faces-revolt-over-immoral-retail-deal.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the ministry will today face further revolt over its decision to let developers turn 7 acres of church land near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire into an out-of-town retail park. Campaigners, who will march on Westminster Abbey at lunchtime, say the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44322\">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":[36,48,39,40,382,74,67,389,582,149,168,600,184,441,599,585,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-stock-market","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44322","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=44322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}