{"id":26867,"date":"2019-03-18T12:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26867"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:06:24","slug":"more-tea-vicar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-tea-vicar\/","title":{"rendered":"More tea vicar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is putting on a sterling display of self-parody by holding tea parties to heal divisions in Britain, supposedly caused by the UK\u2019s departure from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>At last we see <em>good disagreement<\/em> in action.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/church-of-england-holds-tea-parties-to-heal-brexit-divide-tx3nxgbfg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26869\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_a8d1c362-4971-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_a8d1c362-4971-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_a8d1c362-4971-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_a8d1c362-4971-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_a8d1c362-4971-11e9-9ce9-2870f730ce44-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>The Church of England is to host thousands of post-Brexit tea parties to heal divisions between Brexiteers and Remainers, complete with a set of \u201cconversation starters\u201d designed to break the ice.<\/p>\n<p>New prayers have been written for priests to use at the gatherings, designed to bring together those who \u201clament\u201d Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union with those who will be celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>Remainers and Brexiteers will be asked to \u201cget together and chat over a cup of tea and pray for our country and our future\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England is putting on a sterling display of self-parody by holding tea parties to heal divisions in Britain, supposedly caused by the UK\u2019s departure from the European Union. At last we see good disagreement in action. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-tea-vicar\/\">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":[2363,2186],"class_list":["post-26867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-brexit","tag-justin-welby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867","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=26867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}