{"id":61310,"date":"2017-07-10T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61310"},"modified":"2017-07-10T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T23:05:50","slug":"guardian-clergy-to-ditch-their-robes-in-further-sign-of-dress-down-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61310","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Clergy to ditch their robes in further sign of dress-down Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First it was ties in parliament, now it is surplices at communion.<\/p>\n<p>Following Speaker John Bercow\u2019s decision last month to relax the convention requiring male MPs to wear jackets and ties in parliament, the Church of England is to allow clergy to conduct services in civvies.<\/p>\n<p>The C of E\u2019s ruling body, the synod, meeting in York, has given final approval to a change in canon law on \u201cthe vesture of ordained and authorised ministers during the time of divine service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The measure needs to be approved by the Queen, who swapped her crown for a hat at last month\u2019s state opening of parliament in another sign of dress-down Britain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jul\/10\/clergy-to-ditch-robes-church-england-dress-down-britain\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was ties in parliament, now it is surplices at communion. Following Speaker John Bercow\u2019s decision last month to relax the convention requiring male MPs to wear jackets and ties in parliament, the Church of England is to allow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61310\">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":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61310","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=61310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61312,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61310\/revisions\/61312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}