{"id":45947,"date":"2014-09-19T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kirk_calls_for_scots_to_work_together_after_referendum_decision\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:00:44","slug":"kirk_calls_for_scots_to_work_together_after_referendum_decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45947","title":{"rendered":"Kirk calls for Scots to work together after referendum decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland&#8217;s most senior cleric has urged unionists and pro-independence campaigners to respect the outcome of the referendum and work together towards a stronger future.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours after the result both sides must publicly declare that the matter has been democratically settled, the Moderator of the Kirk&#8217;s General Assembly said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev John Chalmers also suggested replacing posters and badges from the Yes and No campaigns with a &#8220;One Scotland&#8221; image, while opposing voters should pose together for selfies and share them on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stv.tv\/scotland-decides\/news\/292540-church-both-sides-should-build-harmony-after-referendum-decided\">Read it all<\/a> and please note there is a Service of Reconciliation at St Giles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/news_and_events\/news\/2014\/details-on-service-of-reconciliation-at-st-giles-announced\">planned for this Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland&#8217;s most senior cleric has urged unionists and pro-independence campaigners to respect the outcome of the referendum and work together towards a stronger future. In the hours after the result both sides must publicly declare that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45947\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,144,133,154,151,417,108,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45947","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-foreign-relations","category-history","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\/45947","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=45947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}