{"id":56791,"date":"2016-12-22T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_makes_late_bid_for_christmas_advert_of_the_year_with_gogg\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:20:58","slug":"church_of_england_makes_late_bid_for_christmas_advert_of_the_year_with_gogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56791","title":{"rendered":"Church of England makes late bid for Christmas advert of the year with &#34;GoggleBox Vicar&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has squared up to commercial giants John Lewis, Sainsbury&#8217;s and Marks &#038; Spencer with its bid for Christmas ad of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Church&#8217;s new two minute film &#8220;Joy to The World&#8221; features Gogglebox vicar and Songs of Praise presenter Kate Bottley and has been released on the Church&#8217;s official website and social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>The film highlights the hectic life of a vicar at Christmas, combining priest, social worker, parent and dog owner up to the traditional midnight service on Christmas Eve and the magical first moment of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2016\/12\/church-of-england-makes-late-bid-for-christmas-advert-of-the-year-in-new-film-with-%E2%80%9Cgogglebox-vicar%E2%80%9D.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has squared up to commercial giants John Lewis, Sainsbury&#8217;s and Marks &#038; Spencer with its bid for Christmas ad of the year. The Church&#8217;s new two minute film &#8220;Joy to The World&#8221; features Gogglebox vicar and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56791\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,575,389,187,199,89,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-christmas","category-church-of-england-coe","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56791","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=56791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}