{"id":9176,"date":"2010-06-30T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2010-06-30T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:31:10","slug":"suspicious-man-in-the-diocese-of-new-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/suspicious-man-in-the-diocese-of-new-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious Man in the Diocese of New Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: it seems that some spoilsport in the diocese has taken this item off the site – perhaps out of embarrassment. It hasn’t been up long enough to be caught in Google cache but you can see I didn’t make it up – I have a fertile imagination, but not that fertile – by looking here<\/a><\/em>, where you can see it’s the top hit. And for the pathologically sceptical, I’ve reproduced the original from my browser cache. Yes, I know I *could* have Photoshopped it – but why would I – really, as if I didn’t have better things to do.<\/em>\"\"<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why this would be news, but the Diocese of New Westminster reports<\/a> that a Suspicious Man attended one of its meetings:\"Add<\/p>\n

Suspicious Man Attends Church Meeting<\/p>\n

Unknown man with empty briefcase appears unannounced at Church Meeting<\/p>\n

A suspicious middle-aged man attended the Diocese of New Westminster’s Report from General Synod Evening at Christ Church Cathedral, Tuesday, June 29th. He arrived clutching a 1970’s style briefcase that he kept very close to his person during the meeting.<\/p>\n

Security personnel were notified and asked him to reveal the contents of the briefcase. The mystery man opened the briefcase revealing that it was absolutely empty, he than grabbed the briefcase and vanished out the door into the summer evening.<\/p>\n

If anyone recognizes this individual please do not approach as he seems unstable. Immediately notify the church police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reports that he was there to apply for the job of bishop have not been substantiated – so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: it seems that some spoilsport in the diocese has taken this item off the site – perhaps out of embarrassment. It hasn’t been up long enough to be caught in Google cache but you can see I didn’t make … Continue reading →<\/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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[2110],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","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=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}