{"id":14593,"date":"2011-10-19T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14593"},"modified":"2011-10-19T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T17:05:40","slug":"anglican-motorbikes-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-motorbikes-to-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican motorbikes to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2431\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hitchhiking priests are common in Cuba. Cars are expensive and hard to acquire, so ministers must get creative with parish visits. Some spend hours on local transit. Some spend precious pesos on taxis. Others hitch rides and some just walk.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>Motorcycles are a great help to these travelling ministers. That&#8217;s why the outgoing General Secretary, Archdeacon Michael Pollesel, decided to raise money to buy one \u00a0instead of accepting a retirement gift when he left General Synod this fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was very decent of Archdeacon Michael Pollesel. It\u2019s a shame, though, that it probably won\u2019t make him ponder the question why, in the Cuban socialist paradise, most people can\u2019t afford to buy a car and why the Anglican Church of Canada is working so strenuously to turn Canada into an equally impoverished Arcadian collective.<\/p>\n<p>And who will buy Fred Hiltz a motorbike if they succeed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Hitchhiking priests are common in Cuba. Cars are expensive and hard to acquire, so ministers must get creative with parish visits. Some spend hours on local transit. Some spend precious pesos on taxis. Others hitch rides and some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-motorbikes-to-cuba\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,433],"class_list":["post-14593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-archdeacon-michael-pollesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14593","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=14593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}