{"id":43547,"date":"2014-07-14T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/the-church-of-england-will-finally-have-women-bishops.html"},"modified":"2014-07-14T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:20:10","slug":"the-church-of-england-will-finally-have-women-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/the-church-of-england-will-finally-have-women-bishops.html","title":{"rendered":"The Church of England will (finally) have women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Welcome to the 21st Century, my Anglican brethren.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/T7akOenHpBrRrkgIvsRTNVLGdQ45DWUD9bbRXcUHkr8m8bosLw18Qo3vfFkZWv2ShwiunlE-lZHzn09pUrwVrnX2e9_TzA2WpNiJ7xXUMkYGokSzUzWR688htXEsjLzluDAd=w506-h303' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-28300618'>Church of England backs women bishops<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WfVRYXZ9wsr' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the 21st Century, my Anglican brethren.\ufeff Church of England backs women bishops View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,27,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31435,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/church-of-england-votes-down-women-bishops-for-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":43547,"position":0},"title":"Church of England votes down women bishops (for now)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Nov-12 12:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A sad story, IMO ... especially since the failure to make it happened came from the laity, not the clergy or bishops themselves. 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