{"id":5058,"date":"2009-07-30T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:20:02","slug":"anglicanism-why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-why-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicanism: why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reputation of the Western Anglican church is hovering between <em>irrelevant<\/em> and <em>international laughingstock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/poll\/2009\/jul\/17\/anglicanism-christianity\" target=\"_blank\">conducted a poll<\/a> on whether holding the Anglican Communion together matters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Anglican communion&#8217;s foundations are looking shaky in the wake of a controversial Episcopal vote. But does it really matter if this church fragments? Is it time to ditch the idea of a coherent, single Anglican communion? In short, is the Anglican communion worth it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5059\" title=\"guardian poll\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/guardian-poll.jpg\" alt=\"guardian poll\" width=\"461\" height=\"103\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reputation of the Western Anglican church is hovering between irrelevant and international laughingstock. The Guardian conducted a poll on whether holding the Anglican Communion together matters: The Anglican communion&#8217;s foundations are looking shaky in the wake of a controversial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-why-bother\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[2030,2031],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-anglican-angst","tag-anglican","tag-anglican-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}