{"id":46085,"date":"2014-09-27T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_cheltenham_church_officials_sold_painting_without_permission\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:45:35","slug":"bbc_cheltenham_church_officials_sold_painting_without_permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46085","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Cheltenham church officials &#39;sold painting without permission&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church officials were &#8220;stupid&#8221; and their conduct &#8220;dismal&#8221; when they sold a painting at auction for \u00c2\u00a320,000 without diocesan permission, an investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>The Gloucester Diocese church court report accepted that the vicar and wardens had not acted dishonestly.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th Century Madonna and Child by Franz Ittenbach was sold by Emmanuel Church in Cheltenham last October.<\/p>\n<p>A parish spokesman stressed that officials had acted properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-gloucestershire-29347751\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church officials were &#8220;stupid&#8221; and their conduct &#8220;dismal&#8221; when they sold a painting at auction for \u00c2\u00a320,000 without diocesan permission, an investigation has found. The Gloucester Diocese church court report accepted that the vicar and wardens had not acted dishonestly.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46085\">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":[36,48,39,74,130,389,168,133,184,177,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-art","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46085","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=46085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}