{"id":66838,"date":"2018-01-02T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66838"},"modified":"2018-01-02T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T11:33:08","slug":"bbc-archbishop-of-canterburys-2018-new-year-message-praises-compassion-shown-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66838","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Archbishop of Canterbury&#8217;s 2018 New Year message praises compassion shown in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican leader recalled the desperation and sorrow he felt when he visited Grenfell Tower in west London as it burned.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted the plight of people who were &#8220;struggling to find work or relying on food banks&#8221; and those who were bereaved, or coping with poor mental health or physical illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When things feel unrelentingly difficult, there are often questions which hang in the air: Is there any light at all? Does anyone care?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He cited a passage from the Bible&#8217;s Gospel of John: &#8220;The light shone in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-42532667\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican leader recalled the desperation and sorrow he felt when he visited Grenfell Tower in west London as it burned. He also highlighted the plight of people who were &#8220;struggling to find work or relying on food banks&#8221; and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66838\">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":[382,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838","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=66838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66840,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions\/66840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}