{"id":20797,"date":"2013-12-21T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20797"},"modified":"2013-12-21T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:43:54","slug":"canterbury-and-vatican-to-play-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/canterbury-and-vatican-to-play-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury and Vatican to play cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2013\/12\/anglican-priests-to-play-vatican-team-at-cricket.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has accepted a challenge from the Vatican to play their first ever cricket match.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am anticipating the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that, rather than play an actual match where someone has to lose, both sides should participate in a continuing Indaba, find a middle ground \u2013 known in cricketing parlance as a silly mid-wicket &#8211; thereby indefinitely postponing pointless confrontation while projecting the illusion of useful activity &#8211; without any of the risk. Besides, to take part in a real match, you need real balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The head of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has accepted a challenge from the Vatican to play their first ever cricket match. I am anticipating the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that, rather than play an actual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/canterbury-and-vatican-to-play-cricket\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1740,1369],"class_list":["post-20797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-cricket","tag-roman-catholic-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797","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=20797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}