{"id":4081,"date":"2009-05-06T21:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T02:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2009-05-06T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T02:54:31","slug":"the-diocese-of-niagara-sinks-to-newly-plumbed-depths-of-infamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-sinks-to-newly-plumbed-depths-of-infamy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Niagara sinks to newly plumbed depths of infamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/06\/intimidation-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, the diocese could not make up its mind on who to sue: ANiC parishes or the wardens of the parishes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week they decided. In court their lawyer announced that the diocese is seeking over $200,000 in court costs from the wardens of the parishes: Bishop Michael Bird and his cohorts in this sordid villainy are out to punish church volunteers. It\u2019s hard to envisage a more contemptible, pecksniffian, anti-Christian act, but I expect the scelestious <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/30\/bishop-michael-bird-speaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bird<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/30\/the-status-quo-is-no-longer-an-option-redux\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patterson<\/a> duo will find one.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, they also want to chuck the rector out of his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported here, the diocese could not make up its mind on who to sue: ANiC parishes or the wardens of the parishes. Last week they decided. In court their lawyer announced that the diocese is seeking over $200,000 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-sinks-to-newly-plumbed-depths-of-infamy\/\">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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","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=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}