{"id":62502,"date":"2017-08-16T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62502"},"modified":"2017-08-16T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T22:19:23","slug":"timeout-things-you-only-know-if-youre-a-london-parish-priest-a-profile-of-the-rev-niall-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62502","title":{"rendered":"(Timeout) Things you only know if you\u2019re a London parish priest: a profile of the Rev Niall Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church has got London covered<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Every inch of the UK has its own parish church and I think that\u2019s rather wonderful. Being a parish priest has taught me the value of longevity. St Paul\u2019s West Hackney has been here since 1824: five years before the first London bobby appeared on the beat, before the NHS, before state schools, and we intend to stay!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Priests aren\u2019t all po-faced<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I appeared in drag on a calendar one year that was made by some local sex workers. Each one of them appeared as a female icon and I dressed up as Dame Edna. I think I scrub up rather well, but my children were very embarrassed&#8230;.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/blog\/things-you-only-know-if-youre-a-london-parish-priest-081117\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church has got London covered \u2018Every inch of the UK has its own parish church and I think that\u2019s rather wonderful. Being a parish priest has taught me the value of longevity. St Paul\u2019s West Hackney has been here<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62502\">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":[389,435,184,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62502","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=62502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62503,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62502\/revisions\/62503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}