{"id":69855,"date":"2018-04-03T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69855"},"modified":"2018-04-03T06:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:59:21","slug":"a-group-of-c-of-e-bishops-easter-letter-warns-of-slavery-in-our-midst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69855","title":{"rendered":"A Group of C of E Bishops\u2019 Easter letter warns of slavery in our midst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slavery is on the rise in Britain in a way we have not seen since the days of William Wilberforce. Last year 5,145 victims were found in the UK. It is a big increase on 2016\u2019s figure, but it still does not come close to the tens of thousands that the National Crime Agency believes are hidden.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem that we should leave this problem to the police. But this Easter we are asking everyone to open their eyes to the signs of potential exploitation around them. The Clewer Initiative, our national anti-slavery project, educates people on what to look out for. New life for those entombed in darkness.<\/p>\n<p>As Wilberforce said more than 200 years ago, \u201cYou may choose to look the other way but you can never say you did not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/bishops-easter-letter-warns-slavery-our-midst\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slavery is on the rise in Britain in a way we have not seen since the days of William Wilberforce. Last year 5,145 victims were found in the UK. It is a big increase on 2016\u2019s figure, but it still<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69855\">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":[389,635,199,168,144,114,108,112,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855","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=69855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69856,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855\/revisions\/69856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}