{"id":53107,"date":"2016-01-25T06:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/express_vicars_bizarrely_urged_to_grow_beards_in_an_effort_to_reach_out_to_\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:51:01","slug":"express_vicars_bizarrely_urged_to_grow_beards_in_an_effort_to_reach_out_to_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53107","title":{"rendered":"Express: Vicars bizarrely urged to grow Beards in an effort to reach out to British Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of London said vicars who grow out their facial hair as they try to appeal to Islamic communities around them &#8220;can only be applauded&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev Richard Chartres has even gone so far as to advise Anglican priests to grow facial hair to &#8220;connect&#8221; with local Muslims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/637266\/Vicars-grow-BEARDS-reach-outBritish-Muslims\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of London said vicars who grow out their facial hair as they try to appeal to Islamic communities around them &#8220;can only be applauded&#8221;. The Rt Rev Richard Chartres has even gone so far as to advise Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53107\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,426,659,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53107","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}