{"id":52454,"date":"2015-12-01T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_the_church_of_scotland_welcomes_largest_number_of_trainee_ministers_in_\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:15:45","slug":"bbc_the_church_of_scotland_welcomes_largest_number_of_trainee_ministers_in_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52454","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) The Church of Scotland welcomes largest number of trainee ministers in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland is welcoming its largest number of trainee ministers in five years, with 27 new candidates accepted for training so far this year.<br \/>\nWith further applicants due for assessment next month, it could be the largest intake for 10 years.<br \/>\nThe Kirk expects hundreds of ministers to retire in the next 10 years.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re no different to other professions facing up to retirement challenges, like GPs and teachers&#8221; said Rev Neil Glover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-34959508\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Scotland is welcoming its largest number of trainee ministers in five years, with 27 new candidates accepted for training so far this year. With further applicants due for assessment next month, it could be the largest intake<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52454\">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":[48,39,50,42,199,435,154,184,417,108,326,167,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454","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=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}