{"id":58890,"date":"2017-04-13T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58890"},"modified":"2017-04-13T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:30:11","slug":"queen-elizabeth-distributes-royal-maundy-money-at-leicester-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58890","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth distributes Royal Maundy money at Leicester Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Queen Elizabeth distributes Royal Maundy money at Leicester Cathedral<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnglicanNews?src=hash\">#AnglicanNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaundyThursday?src=hash\">#MaundyThursday<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8TuRaH1qoz\">https:\/\/t.co\/8TuRaH1qoz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGSI7fi9JX\">pic.twitter.com\/fGSI7fi9JX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anglican Communion (@ACOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACOffice\/status\/852561668626370560\">April 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Queen Elizabeth II has distributed ceremonial pouches of coins to 182 men and women in a Maundy Thursday ceremony that dates back to the 13th Century. The queen, wearing a turquoise green coat and matching hat, handed out the money during a service at Leicester Cathedral in the English Midlands. In doing so she has now taken part in the traditional annual Maundy Thursday service in every one of England\u2019s Anglican cathedrals.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients were selected for their service to the church and community. Each of them \u2013 91 each of male and female as the Queen is 91 years of age \u2013 received two pouches. A red one contained a commemorative \u00a35 coin, commemorating the Centenary of the House of Windsor and a 50p coin commemorating Sir Isaac Newton; while a white pouch contained 91 pence \u2013 again, equal to her age \u2013 in specially minted Maundy coins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2017\/04\/queen-elizabeth-distributes-royal-maundy-money-at-leicester-cathedral.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth distributes Royal Maundy money at Leicester Cathedral#AnglicanNews #MaundyThursdayhttps:\/\/t.co\/8TuRaH1qoz pic.twitter.com\/fGSI7fi9JX &mdash; Anglican Communion (@ACOffice) April 13, 2017 Queen Elizabeth II has distributed ceremonial pouches of coins to 182 men and women in a Maundy Thursday ceremony that dates back<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58890\">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":[199,570,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-holy-week","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58890","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=58890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58892,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58890\/revisions\/58892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}