{"id":59381,"date":"2017-04-28T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59381"},"modified":"2017-04-28T07:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:47:30","slug":"church-times-death-of-cathedrals-reports-have-been-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59381","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Death of cathedrals: reports \u2018have been exaggerated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suggestions that as many as half the 42 Church of England cathedrals are in danger of closing as a result of continuing financial mismanagement have been dismissed by the Bishop of Stepney, the Rt Revd Adrian Newman.<\/p>\n<p>The Dean of Lichfield, the Very Revd Adrian Dorber, called the stories \u201cgrossly erroneous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Dorber was speaking during the three-day annual conference of deans, in London this week. \u201cThere are financial stresses but these are not new,\u201d he said. \u201cI am optimistic, but there is panic in high places, and we need calm rational discussion rather than public hand-wringing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/28-april\/news\/uk\/death-of-cathedrals-reports-have-been-exaggerated\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suggestions that as many as half the 42 Church of England cathedrals are in danger of closing as a result of continuing financial mismanagement have been dismissed by the Bishop of Stepney, the Rt Revd Adrian Newman. The Dean of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59381\">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":[97,130,389,199,133,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381","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=59381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59383,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions\/59383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}