{"id":17981,"date":"2012-11-21T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2012-11-21T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:02:22","slug":"a-grim-day-for-women-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-grim-day-for-women-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"A very grim day for women priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>That\u2019s what Justin Welby tweeted after the Church of England synod defeated a motion to allow women bishops:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17982\" title=\"Grim day\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Grim-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What continues to baffle me is the angst that women priests evidently feel at being prevented from being bishops. Surely, as Christians, they cannot believe their worth is defined by the impossibility of being a bishop?<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m all in favour of &#8220;prayer &amp; love and&#8230;. healing&#8221;, in this case, healing from what &#8211; other than an imaginary slight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what Justin Welby tweeted after the Church of England synod defeated a motion to allow women bishops: &nbsp; &nbsp; What continues to baffle me is the angst that women priests evidently feel at being prevented from being bishops. Surely, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-grim-day-for-women-priests\/\">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":[85],"tags":[2089,1638],"class_list":["post-17981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-women-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981","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=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}