{"id":22622,"date":"2015-02-25T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:04:12","slug":"parishioner-wants-handshaking-abolished-at-the-passing-of-the-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/parishioner-wants-handshaking-abolished-at-the-passing-of-the-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Parishioner wants handshaking abolished at the passing of the peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, as an Anglican bishop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/News\/Local\/2015-02-24\/article-4055917\/Handshaking-should-be-abolished,-says-parishioner\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">noted<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Geoff Peddle of the Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador said the practice has been discussed many times before in his church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have dealt with it over and over again,\u201d\u2008he said. \u201cDuring SARS, the H1N1, we stopped all physical contact and refrained from drinking from the cup,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In contrast, the Anglican Church of Canada is quite content to encourage men to have anal sex with one another by blessing the activity;\u00a0that, after all, is so much more hygienic than shaking hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, as an Anglican bishop noted: Bishop Geoff Peddle of the Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador said the practice has been discussed many times before in his church. \u201cWe have dealt with it over and over again,\u201d\u2008he said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/parishioner-wants-handshaking-abolished-at-the-passing-of-the-peace\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,1386],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","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=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}