{"id":5061,"date":"2008-03-13T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/alexander_elected_anglican_bishop_of_edmonton\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T01:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:53:00","slug":"alexander_elected_anglican_bishop_of_edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5061","title":{"rendered":"Alexander elected Anglican bishop of Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Alexander&#8217;s father was so anti-church that he forbade her from attending religious classes at school in England, where she was born and raised.<\/p>\n<p>As a girl, she obeyed her father. But it was while singing hymns and oratorios in choirs and school assemblies that she says she heard &#8220;the first whisperings of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember rather nervously reaching out to Him at a time of great upheaval as a teenager and being overwhelmed with a sense of welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/story.html?id=f9bf4b8e-4784-4dd8-b910-6f86ce744f94&#038;k=25382\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Alexander&#8217;s father was so anti-church that he forbade her from attending religious classes at school in England, where she was born and raised. As a girl, she obeyed her father. But it was while singing hymns and oratorios in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5061\">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":[36,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","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=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}