{"id":45695,"date":"2014-09-04T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scottish_referendum_campaign_permeated_by_something_ugly_says_senior_cleric\/"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T16:04:26","slug":"scottish_referendum_campaign_permeated_by_something_ugly_says_senior_cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45695","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Scottish referendum campaign &#39;permeated by something ugly&#39; says senior cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland&#8217;s most senior cleric has expressed fears that &#8220;something ugly&#8221; is permeating the referendum campaign, as a new poll finds that voters believe the country will be divided after 18 September regardless of the outcome of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Right Rev John Chalmers, moderator of the General Assembly, said: &#8220;I am repelled by the name-calling and rancour we have seen in recent weeks. We need to behave as though we are paving the way for working together whatever the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have faith that despite divergent views most Scots are behaving courteously during the runup to the referendum. However, it has become clear that some are not. I fear that something ugly may be beginning to permeate the independence debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/sep\/03\/scottish-independence-campaign-church-of-scotland-rancour\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland&#8217;s most senior cleric has expressed fears that &#8220;something ugly&#8221; is permeating the referendum campaign, as a new poll finds that voters believe the country will be divided after 18 September regardless of the outcome of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45695\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,168,154,151,417,108,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45695","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=45695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}