{"id":98487,"date":"2021-01-11T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98487"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:58:20","slug":"guardian-london-mayor-khan-urges-johnson-to-close-places-of-worship-as-covid-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98487","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) London Mayor Khan urges PM Johnson to close places of worship as Covid cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Places of worship in the capital should shut immediately because of the risks of Covid infection, <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/sadiq-khan\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Sadiq Khan<\/a> has said, amid signs that churches, mosques and synagogues are already closing their doors.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the prime minister setting out his reasons for <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/sadiq-khan-declares-covid-emergency-in-london\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">declaring a major incident in London<\/a>, the mayor urged Boris Johnson to order places of worship to close, among other measures to tackle the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Under the lockdown restrictions, places of worship in England, Wales and <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/northernireland\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Northern Ireland<\/a> are permitted to remain open. The Scottish government has ordered them closed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\">On Friday, Blackburn and Derby cathedrals announced they were suspending public worship following stark warnings from health officials of rising infection rates and increasing pressure on hospitals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/khan-urges-johnson-close-places-worship-london-covid-cases-surge\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Places of worship in the capital should shut immediately because of the risks of Covid infection, Sadiq Khan has said, amid signs that churches, mosques and synagogues are already closing their doors. In a letter to the prime minister setting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=98487\">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":[389,635,199,168,104,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98487","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=98487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98491,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98487\/revisions\/98491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}