{"id":11274,"date":"2011-01-07T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2011-01-07T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T05:19:00","slug":"uk-ywca-drops-christian-from-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/uk-ywca-drops-christian-from-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: YWCA drops \u201cChristian\u201d from its name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1344779\/YWCA-drops-word-Christian-historic-Platform-51.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the country\u2019s best-known charities has changed its name, losing the clearest link to its Christian roots.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Women\u2019s Christian Association has dropped its historic title after 156 years because \u2018it no longer stands for who we are\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the organisation \u2013 which is mainly funded by legacies left by Christian supporters over 15 decades \u2013 will be known as \u2018Platform 51\u2019\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Its chairman is gay rights activist and former equality quango manager Helen Wollaston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to be turning into the Anglican Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: One of the country\u2019s best-known charities has changed its name, losing the clearest link to its Christian roots. The Young Women\u2019s Christian Association has dropped its historic title after 156 years because \u2018it no longer stands for who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/uk-ywca-drops-christian-from-its-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[2291],"class_list":["post-11274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ywca","tag-ywca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}