{"id":4724,"date":"2009-06-25T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2009-06-25T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T20:35:55","slug":"free-speech-in-the-diocese-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/free-speech-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech in the Diocese of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like having a low expectation of something to set the tone; thus the Diocese of Niagara has a new program called the Wall of Innovation (who came up with <em>that <\/em>name?). In anticipation of a barrage of negativity, much like this moribund <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/plannedgiving\/Board\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">forum<\/a>,\u00a0 the diocese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/index2.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">admonishes potential critics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please note &#8211; although we really want to give every member of the Diocese of Niagara the privilege of commenting and entering into a productive dialogue, we will not accept comments that are vitriolic or hurtful in any way. These will be removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Free speech is cherished in Niagara \u2013 so long as you don&#8217;t upset the delicate sensibilities of Michael Bird as he journeys in the pursuit of excellence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em>The presentation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and technically is quite well done &#8211; an Adobe Flash page that looks like a curved (I almost said &#8220;bent&#8221;) version of iTunes Coverflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like having a low expectation of something to set the tone; thus the Diocese of Niagara has a new program called the Wall of Innovation (who came up with that name?). In anticipation of a barrage of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/free-speech-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\">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":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-4724","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\/4724","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=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}