{"id":51198,"date":"2015-08-13T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_church_of_england_defends_songs_of_praise_filmed_in_calais_migrant\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:15:45","slug":"guardian_church_of_england_defends_songs_of_praise_filmed_in_calais_migrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51198","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Church of England defends Songs of Praise filmed in Calais migrant camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Express and the Sun both carried critical front pages of the BBC programme\u2019s decision to film in the church, which they claimed was a waste of licence fee money and a highly politicised gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, made it clear in a tweet that he fully supported the programme, as well as retweeting a positive piece from the influential Anglican blog, Archbishop Cranmer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do they think the church is for? It is for the poor and the vulnerable, it is to voice things that others cannot voice,\u201d\u009d [Bishop] Baines told the Guardian. \u201cEveryone else seems to be allowed to be political apart from the church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/aug\/12\/church-england-defends-songs-of-praise-filmed-calais-migrant-camp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Express and the Sun both carried critical front pages of the BBC programme\u2019s decision to film in the church, which they claimed was a waste of licence fee money and a highly politicised gesture. Justin Welby, the archbishop<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51198\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,389,199,168,147,114,183,184,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198","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=51198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}