{"id":50916,"date":"2015-07-21T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_tv_vicar_under_fire_for_seedy_reality_show_married_at_first_si\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:00:50","slug":"london_times_tv_vicar_under_fire_for_seedy_reality_show_married_at_first_si","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50916","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) TV vicar under fire for \u201d\u02dcseedy\u2019 reality show Married at First Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vicar who is the star of a reality television show in which couples are married as soon as they meet has been criticised for allowing his clerical collar to give respectability to a \u201cseedy\u201d\u009d experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Nick Devenish is one of five experts who selected six strangers to tie the knot in the Channel 4 show Married at First Sight.<\/p>\n<p>The team vicar at the Church of St Mary &#038; St Michael in Cartmel, Cumbria, analysed the participants\u2019 understanding of marriage, what they wanted from their union and how well they understood the seriousness and commitment required. He was part of a panel of experts alongside a sex therapist, a psychologist and two anthropologists.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Rev David Walker, accused the show of \u201cinappropriate and rather seedy behaviour\u201d\u009d and has said that a Church of England vicar should not have been involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/medianews\/article4502675.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vicar who is the star of a reality television show in which couples are married as soon as they meet has been criticised for allowing his clerical collar to give respectability to a \u201cseedy\u201d\u009d experiment. The Rev Nick Devenish<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50916\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,635,199,98,435,93,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-movies-television","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50916","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=50916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}