{"id":56033,"date":"2016-10-18T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_york_minster_bellringers_sacking_was_over_safeguarding_issue\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:15:53","slug":"guardian_york_minster_bellringers_sacking_was_over_safeguarding_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56033","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) York Minster bellringers&#39; sacking was over &#39;safeguarding&#39; issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>York Minster dismissed 30 volunteer bellringers because one member of the group was regarded as a safeguarding risk, according to a statement delivered by the archbishop of York, John Sentamu.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the group \u201cconsistently challenged\u201d\u009d the minster\u2019s governing body, the Chapter of York, on this and other matters, the statement from York Minster said.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers were told at a special meeting last Tuesday that bellringing activity at the minster would cease with immediate effect for \u201chealth and safety\u201d\u009d reasons and that they were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/17\/york-minster-bellringers-sacking-was-on-safeguarding-grounds\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>York Minster dismissed 30 volunteer bellringers because one member of the group was regarded as a safeguarding risk, according to a statement delivered by the archbishop of York, John Sentamu. Other members of the group \u201cconsistently challenged\u201d\u009d the minster\u2019s governing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56033\">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":[36,48,39,74,175,389,168,183,132,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56033","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=56033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}