{"id":47151,"date":"2014-12-01T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_exeter_cathedral_appoints_first_female_canon_in_900_years\/"},"modified":"2014-12-01T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:00:38","slug":"bbc_exeter_cathedral_appoints_first_female_canon_in_900_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47151","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Exeter Cathedral appoints first female canon in 900 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been appointed as a canon chancellor at Exeter Cathedral for the first time in its 900-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Canon Anna Norman-Walker, a former nurse, told BBC News the Church of England was &#8220;on the move&#8221; over its position on female clergy.<\/p>\n<p>In November, following intense debate, the church formally adopted legislation to allow female bishops by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Draper, Dean of Exeter Cathedral, said the new canon brought &#8220;great gifts and energy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-devon-30267972\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been appointed as a canon chancellor at Exeter Cathedral for the first time in its 900-year history. Canon Anna Norman-Walker, a former nurse, told BBC News the Church of England was &#8220;on the move&#8221; over its position<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47151\">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":[36,48,39,74,389,435,184,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47151","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=47151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}