{"id":8923,"date":"2010-06-06T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2010-06-06T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:32:30","slug":"general-synod-an-afternoon-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/general-synod-an-afternoon-off\/","title":{"rendered":"General Synod: an afternoon off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time does not move at the same pace in all circumstances: 3 days of Synod are the equivalent of 3 weeks of ordinary time. Part of the problem is that Anglicans love to talk, especially when they have nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>So I was very glad for a break: this afternoon we drove down the coast to Peggy\u2019s Cove. What I didn\u2019t know was that the Anglican Synod had moved to Exhibition Park\u00a0 &#8211; not far from Peggy&#8217;s Cove &#8211; for their afternoon shindig. Consequently, the closer we got to Peggy\u2019s Cove, the denser the fog became until, by the time we arrived, we could barely see anything. Then the rain started.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for Synod is nautical <em>\u201cFeeling the Winds of God: Charting a New Course\u201d<\/em>, so each day begins with the sound of a ship\u2019s horn; at least, I thought that\u2019s what it was. Now I realise it\u2019s a foghorn.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the fog, which would you rather look at, this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8924\" title=\"_MG_4487\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MG_4487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8925\" title=\"_MG_4484\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/MG_4484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time does not move at the same pace in all circumstances: 3 days of Synod are the equivalent of 3 weeks of ordinary time. Part of the problem is that Anglicans love to talk, especially when they have nothing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/general-synod-an-afternoon-off\/\">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":[167],"tags":[2160],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gs2010-2","tag-gs2010-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923","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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}