{"id":14004,"date":"2011-08-26T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14004"},"modified":"2011-08-26T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:55:14","slug":"jack-layton-for-primate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/jack-layton-for-primate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Layton for Primate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I know he is dead, but he\u2019s not <em>much<\/em> more dead than the <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada\/fred-hiltz-and-marvin-the-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\">current Primate<\/a> and he\u2019s a definite <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2418\">fit for the job<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was passionate about issues of justice.\u00a0 He walked with the poor and the marginalized.\u00a0 He cared about the impact of the economy on health care, housing, and education.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>His entire public life was characterized by a profound commitment to the common good.\u00a0 He was a champion of human rights, and a passionate environmentalist.\u00a0 Proud to be Canadian he cared deeply about our place among the nations.\u00a0 In his final letter to all of us he wrote, &#8220;Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.\u00a0 We can be a better one\u2014a country of greater equality, justice and opportunity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I know he is dead, but he\u2019s not much more dead than the current Primate and he\u2019s a definite fit for the job: He was passionate about issues of justice.\u00a0 He walked with the poor and the marginalized.\u00a0 He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/jack-layton-for-primate\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[2145,918],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ndp","tag-fred-hiltz","tag-jack-layton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","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=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}