{"id":1634,"date":"2008-06-21T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2008-06-21T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T10:53:06","slug":"getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Getting better"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I have been reading <strike>Dairmaid<\/strike> <strike>Dermot<\/strike> <strike>Diarmaud<\/strike> Diarmaid MacCulloch&#8217;s rather wonderful <em>Reformation; <\/em>this clears up a lot of confusion about the roots of the Church of England and its model of authority. In modern political terms, all Henry <span class=\"caps\">VIII<\/span> did was to fork the papacy. But of course some of the people on the project wanted to rewrite it completely.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>The book, in case you didn&#8217;t know, is a magnificent achievement, all the more impressive because it was written in the interstices of teaching, and&#8212;I imagine&#8212;spending more time than almost anyone else in the world spelling out his name down telephone lines.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>I have been reading Dairmaid Dermot Diarmaud Diarmaid MacCulloch&#8217;s rather wonderful Reformation; this clears up a lot of confusion about the roots of the Church of England and its model of authority. In modern political terms, all Henry <span class=\"caps\">VIII<\/span> did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}