{"id":1553,"date":"2015-03-14T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2015-05-06T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:17:07","slug":"the-letter-from-the-house-of-bishops-about-the-2015-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-letter-from-the-house-of-bishops-about-the-2015-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The letter from the house of Bishops about the 2015 General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1555\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1555\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-1555 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015-211x300.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bishops letter 2015\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27211%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20211%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27211%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015-147x210.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bishops-letter-2015.jpg 321w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who is my neighbour?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The following is the introduction to this thought provoking letter.<\/p>\n<p>How should Christian men and women approach the General Election to be held on 7 May 2015? This letter from the Church of England\u2019s House of Bishops is addressed to all members of the church. And, as the Church of England strives to be a church which seeks the good of all the people of the country, we hope that others, who may not profess church allegiance, will nevertheless join in the conversation and engage with the ideas we are sharing here. This letter is not a shopping list of policies we would like to see. It is a call for the new direction that we believe our political life ought to take.\u00a0 Read the full letter here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/whoismyneighbour-pages.pdf\">whoismyneighbour-pages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the introduction to this thought provoking letter. How should Christian men and women approach the General Election to be held on 7 May 2015? This letter from the Church of England\u2019s House of Bishops is addressed to all members of the church. And, as the Church of England strives to be a church which seeks the good of all the people of the country, we hope that others, who may not profess church allegiance, will nevertheless join in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}