{"id":702,"date":"2008-10-13T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T02:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2008-10-13T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T02:30:35","slug":"the-case-of-the-dead-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-case-of-the-dead-hedgehog\/","title":{"rendered":"The case of the dead hedgehog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/3191466\/Methodist-minister-faked-hate-campaign-against-herself--court-told.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Spiny Norman\" src=\"http:\/\/sporeflections.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/hedghog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Methodist minister faked hate campaign against herself , court told<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rev Janet Magee, 62, claimed she was the victim of sinister telephone calls, poison pen letter and had a dead hedgehog and dog excrement posted through her letterbox.<\/p>\n<p>Her complaints to police led to the arrest of Roger Chessell, a Methodist circuit steward, who had openly accused her of &#8220;working with or for Satan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was interviewed at length and his house was searched before he was released without charge, Grimsby Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Magee was arrested after police secretly installed a CCTV camera at her home which proved she could not have received the hedgehog on the date she claimed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t help wondering is, how does one put a hedgehog, dead or otherwise through a letterbox? Of course, it must be a relief to the church-going public that the police are ever vigilant against the improper use of hedgehogs.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the current disputes rattling the Anglican church look positively banal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph Methodist minister faked hate campaign against herself , court told Rev Janet Magee, 62, claimed she was the victim of sinister telephone calls, poison pen letter and had a dead hedgehog and dog excrement posted through her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-case-of-the-dead-hedgehog\/\">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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing-in-particular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}