{"id":19331,"date":"2013-05-06T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19331"},"modified":"2013-05-06T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T21:02:17","slug":"anglican-journal-bishop-sues-blogger-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-journal-bishop-sues-blogger-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Journal: Bishop sues blogger for defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave your comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/bishop-sues-blogger-for-defamation#Comments\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; I would be interested to know how long they stay up (or if they even appear):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Michael Bird of the diocese of Niagara has filed a defamation lawsuit with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against blogger David Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleges that, in his blog <i>Anglican Samizdat,<\/i> Jenkins has published comments about Bird that were injurious to his \u201ccredit, character and reputation\u2026in his office as spiritual leader and Bishop of the Diocese and in his occupation as priest&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton lawyer Graydon Sheppard, who is representing the bishop, told the <i>Anglican Journal<\/i> that the lawsuit was a last resort measure from the bishop. \u201cHe, and to some extent, his wife, have been under constant attack for more than two years by this blogger\u2026\u201d Jenkins, he added, \u201chas gone beyond fair comment and debate about doctrinal matters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave your comments here; I would be interested to know how long they stay up (or if they even appear): Bishop Michael Bird of the diocese of Niagara has filed a defamation lawsuit with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-journal-bishop-sues-blogger-for-defamation\/\">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":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[1064],"class_list":["post-19331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuit","tag-matthew-1027"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331","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=19331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}