{"id":45527,"date":"2014-08-08T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_letter_from_the_bishop_of_tewkesbury_to_the_diocese_of_gloucester\/"},"modified":"2014-08-08T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:00:08","slug":"a_letter_from_the_bishop_of_tewkesbury_to_the_diocese_of_gloucester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45527","title":{"rendered":"A Letter from the Bishop of Tewkesbury to the Diocese of Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various news outlets are carrying a story that this is an investigation by the Metropolitan Police into allegations of indecent assault on a child aged under 18 years and indecent assault on a second female aged over 18 years. The police have confirmed that no arrest has been made. You will all realise that this is therefore  a traumatic time for Bishop Michael, his family and for those who have made the allegations. Please hold them in your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry that we have not been able to say more until now. I know many people have found this frustrating but I hope you will understand our reasons for this and will appreciate that we have been liaising very closely with Lambeth Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the Archbishop of Canterbury signed an Instrument of Delegation that allows me to act as diocesan bishop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gloucester.anglican.org\/letter-from-the-bishop-of-tewkesbury.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various news outlets are carrying a story that this is an investigation by the Metropolitan Police into allegations of indecent assault on a child aged under 18 years and indecent assault on a second female aged over 18 years. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45527\">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":[36,39,50,74,389,635,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45527","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=45527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}