{"id":48311,"date":"2015-02-09T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/loneliness_a_major_middle_class_problem_says_church_of_england_clergy_surve\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:32:12","slug":"loneliness_a_major_middle_class_problem_says_church_of_england_clergy_surve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48311","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness a major middle class problem says Church of England clergy survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Loneliness and isolation are England\u2019s most widespread social problems and are common even in affluent middle class areas, according to a survey of vicars.<\/p>\n<p>The number of clergy reporting that social isolation is a major problem in their area has risen by ten per cent in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The survey published by the Church Urban Fund and the Church of England showed loneliness was the only issue to be cited by clergy as a significant problem in the majority of wealthier, as well as deprived areas.<\/p>\n<p>Social isolation was listed as a more common problem than unemployment, homelessness and poor housing by the 1,812 clergy who completed the questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11398918\/Loneliness-major-middle-class-problem-says-Church.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loneliness and isolation are England\u2019s most widespread social problems and are common even in affluent middle class areas, according to a survey of vicars. The number of clergy reporting that social isolation is a major problem in their area has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48311\">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":[48,39,50,175,101,199,168,98,435,184,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311","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=48311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}