{"id":8529,"date":"2013-06-03T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2013-06-03T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T03:50:00","slug":"the-empty-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-empty-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Norwich-Cathedral-Dec-2012-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Norwich-Cathedral-Dec-2012-AS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Norwich Cathedral, Dec 2012 (AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Norwich-Cathedral-Dec-2012-AS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Norwich-Cathedral-Dec-2012-AS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Norwich-Cathedral-Dec-2012-AS.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Welsh poet R.S. Thomas was an Anglophobic Anglican vicar with a hatred of modernity, but he can be forgiven a lot for the first four lines of his poem, <em>The Empty Church<\/em>, singled out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/8894091\/extraordinary-man-of-the-bald-welsh-hills\/\">this<\/a> recent article in the <em>Spectator<\/em> by Peter Conradi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThey laid this stone trap<br \/>\nfor him, enticing him with candles,<br \/>\nas though he would come like some huge moth<br \/>\nout of the darkness to beat there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh poet R.S. Thomas was an Anglophobic Anglican vicar with a hatred of modernity, but he can be forgiven a lot for the first four lines of his poem, The Empty Church, singled out in this recent article in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-empty-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}