{"id":8509,"date":"2010-05-11T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2010-05-11T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T00:22:31","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-wants-your-money-when-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-wants-your-money-when-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada wants your money when you die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike and Fred even sent me a letter \u2013 presumably in the hope that I sink into advanced dementia before joining the choir invisible \u2013 asking to be remembered in my will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8510\" title=\"Begging letter\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Begging-letter1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first sentence of the second paragraph had obviously been partially deleted; one presumes the ACoC can\u2019t afford a proofreader until someone else dies.<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed it should have read something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As you reflect on your contributions to the church, we encourage you to consider including your parish or diocese in your will or in an insurance policy. By designating the church as a beneficiary, you will be strengthening our ability to fulfil God\u2019s mission by continuing to sue ANiC parishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But apparently not; according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/docs\/2010\/Hendrix%20%20Holland%20-%20Letter%20of%20Apology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara web site<\/a> the last part of the sentence should read\u2026. \u201c<em>fulfill God\u2019s mission well into the future\u201d. <\/em>I expect Fred made Mike change that bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike and Fred even sent me a letter \u2013 presumably in the hope that I sink into advanced dementia before joining the choir invisible \u2013 asking to be remembered in my will. The first sentence of the second paragraph had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-wants-your-money-when-you-die\/\">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":[16],"tags":[2032,2111],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","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=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}