{"id":17215,"date":"2012-08-23T17:44:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T21:44:29","slug":"reverend-bob-horrocks-church-of-england-vicar-and-spare-time-nudist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reverend-bob-horrocks-church-of-england-vicar-and-spare-time-nudist\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Bob Horrocks, Church of England vicar and part time nudist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-17216\" title=\"Nude Bible study\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/article-2192506-14A8F31C000005DC-387_306x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"313\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2192506\/Naked-god.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Horrocks, from the Seven Saints Rectory in Farnworth, Bolton, is set to bare all for a TV documentary in a bid to change attitudes towards the naked human body.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old says the Bible celebrates nudity and the sexualisation of bodies is a modern phenomenon which has been manufactured by advertising.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went away and researched the Bible and I found there was a lot of positive stuff &#8211; there is nothing condemning simple nakedness. It was part of life at the time of Jesus. It\u2019s something I would\u2019ve loved to have discovered when I was a lot younger.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At a time when it is tearing itself apart over same-sex marriage, homosexual clergy and women bishops, this is just what the Church of England needs to lend a little sober perspective to its travails: nude vicars.<\/p>\n<p>There is <em>some<\/em> good news in all this: Rev, Horrocks, you don\u2019t need to worry about anyone sexualising your body; really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Mr Horrocks, from the Seven Saints Rectory in Farnworth, Bolton, is set to bare all for a TV documentary in a bid to change attitudes towards the naked human body. The 55-year-old says the Bible celebrates nudity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reverend-bob-horrocks-church-of-england-vicar-and-spare-time-nudist\/\">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":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,2214,1346],"class_list":["post-17215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-nudism","tag-reverend-bob-horrocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215","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=17215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}