{"id":51983,"date":"2015-10-08T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbc_regina_anglican_priest_wears_hijab_for_a_day\/"},"modified":"2015-10-08T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:00:26","slug":"cbc_regina_anglican_priest_wears_hijab_for_a_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51983","title":{"rendered":"(CBC) Regina Anglican priest wears hijab for a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned with what she calls the &#8220;increasing rhetoric about the wearing of the niqab by Muslim women,&#8221; an Anglican priest in Regina decided to take matters into her own hands. She wore a hijab for a day to see what&#8217;s like.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook, Cheryl Toth said she&#8217;s &#8220;uncomfortable with the way the debate focuses on what women wear (or decide not to wear). I am afraid that [the rhetoric] will increase hostility towards women who choose to wear a hijab, a niqab or a burka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said she sees her trial run with the hijab as a way &#8220;to contribute to the conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wore it around Regina including on campus at Luther College, walking around her neighbourhood, at a public lecture and while shopping at a mall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/regina-anglican-priest-wears-hijab-for-a-day-1.3260241\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned with what she calls the &#8220;increasing rhetoric about the wearing of the niqab by Muslim women,&#8221; an Anglican priest in Regina decided to take matters into her own hands. She wore a hijab for a day to see what&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51983\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,388,74,207,161,426,435,659,155,184,108,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51983","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=51983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}