{"id":21966,"date":"2014-08-30T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T01:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21966"},"modified":"2014-08-30T22:59:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T02:59:57","slug":"toronto-jesus-parade-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-jesus-parade-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Jesus parade back on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Some of us, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford for example, are conspicuous, noisy, brash, drug-addicted, drunken sinners. I\u2019ve always thought that type of sinner more endearing than miscreants with a veneer of\u00a0 respectability who harbour the carefully concealed sin of elitist sanctimony favoured by liberals. Just as Jesus is a friend of sinners \u2013 more a friend of the former category, I suspect \u2013 so this sinner is a friend of Jesus: Rob Ford has reinstated the Jesus parade.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnewsnetwork.ca\/sunnews\/canada\/archives\/2014\/08\/20140828-153106.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enter Mayor Rob Ford, who told the Toronto Sun her wanted the parade back on and called a meeting of all involved.<\/p>\n<p>Before noon Thursday, that solution was worked out.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was animated\u201d and vocal, McVety said of the mayor. \u201cHe made it clear to city staff he wanted to find a solution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Some of us, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford for example, are conspicuous, noisy, brash, drug-addicted, drunken sinners. I\u2019ve always thought that type of sinner more endearing than miscreants with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/toronto-jesus-parade-back-on\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1879,1874,1878,2274],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-and-politics","tag-dr-charles-mcvety","tag-jesus-parade","tag-mayor-rog-ford","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966","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=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}