{"id":15936,"date":"2012-03-15T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15936"},"modified":"2012-03-15T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:57:01","slug":"1400-year-old-grave-contains-remains-wearing-a-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/1400-year-old-grave-contains-remains-wearing-a-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"1,400 year old grave contains remains wearing a cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2115526\/Anglo-Saxon-grave-reveals-16-year-old-girl-laid-rest-gold-cross.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laid to rest in her best clothes and lying on an ornamental bed, she was probably of noble blood.<\/p>\n<p>Quite how the 16-year-old Anglo Saxon girl died and who she was remain a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>But she was buried wearing a gold cross \u2013 suggesting she was one of Britain\u2019s earliest Christians.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>It was probably sewn into her clothing around the neck and may have been worn in her daily life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s taken 1,400 years for the British government to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2113639\/Lynne-Featherstone-launches-assault-right-wear-cross-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">decide<\/a> that the cross is not something that it will tolerate being worn \u201cin daily life\u201d and for an Archbishop of Canterbury <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/9137510\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-wearing-a-cross-just-decoration-says-Dr-Rowan-Williams.html\" target=\"_blank\">to declare<\/a> that a cross is something &#8220;religious people make and hang on to as a substitute for true faith&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such is the march of progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Laid to rest in her best clothes and lying on an ornamental bed, she was probably of noble blood. Quite how the 16-year-old Anglo Saxon girl died and who she was remain a mystery. But she was buried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/1400-year-old-grave-contains-remains-wearing-a-cross\/\">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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2241,1514],"class_list":["post-15936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-and-culture","tag-rowan-williams","tag-the-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936","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=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}