{"id":666,"date":"2003-06-24T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2003-06-24T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T21:59:07","slug":"not-that-sort-of-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Not that sort of ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nine Bishops who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;$sessionid$Y0TS1NWRNQ5TDQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2003\/06\/17\/nbish17.xml\">an open letter<\/a> protesting that it was wrong to appoint a celibate gay as bishop of Reading last week have got themselves a nickname. They are known to their opponents as the Nazgul.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to write any more about this story, which has consumed an enormous amount of my time over the last week for very little reward. I have done some opinion pieces and a canned appearance on Newsnight, but there really isn&#8217;t very much to say about something that I just don&#8217;t begin to understand.<\/p>\n\n<p>The two essential points that no one has mentioned in public so far are that the Prime Minister&#8217;s appointments secretary is gay, and so is the Bishop of Reading who is being replaced by the gay bishop about whom all the fuss is being made.<\/p>\n\n<p>Apart from that, the story makes perfect sense.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nine Bishops who wrote an open letter protesting that it was wrong to appoint a celibate gay as bishop of Reading last week have got themselves a nickname. They are known to their opponents as the Nazgul. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}