{"id":29221,"date":"2021-09-11T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29221"},"modified":"2021-09-11T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:19:11","slug":"rev-kate-bottley-stripping-for-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-kate-bottley-stripping-for-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Kate Bottley stripping for the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29222\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620-1024x832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620-369x300.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-09-11_214620.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Rev. Kate Bottley is a Church of England vicar who felt called to take her clothes off and pose outdoors for a life-drawing masterclass. The event is to be televised and pumped into the parlours of those among the British public who happen turn on their TV\u2019s at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure why she is doing this. Perhaps it is to identify more fully with other average middle-aged ladies who also like to take their clothes off in public \u2013 and if we are honest, what respectable matron doesn\u2019t like to expose herself in public once in a while \u2013 thereby assuring them that there is nothing strange, quirky or abnormal about the Christian Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. declared that after removing her attire, she felt \u201cempowered\u201d and \u201csafe\u201d, and that, after all, is what Christianity is all about.<\/p>\n<p>But do the rest of us feel safe knowing that while innocently strolling in one of Britain\u2019s serene, lush, verdant parks our eyes might be unexpectedly assaulted by a sizable expanse of pink, naked clerical buttock?<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it, if you must, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9980065\/Reverend-Kate-Bottley-Strictlys-Ian-Waite-strip-life-drawing-class.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Kate Bottley is a Church of England vicar who felt called to take her clothes off and pose outdoors for a life-drawing masterclass. The event is to be televised and pumped into the parlours of those among the British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-kate-bottley-stripping-for-the-gospel\/\">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":49,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2682],"class_list":["post-29221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-rev-kate-bottley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221","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=29221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}