{"id":3529,"date":"2010-04-07T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:46:53","slug":"the-dean-on-doughnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/04\/07\/the-dean-on-doughnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dean on Doughnuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DOUGHNUTS are a better symbol for Easter than the traditional egg, says a leading Tasmanian churchman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Anglican Dean of Hobart, Richard Humphrey, said he preferred the idea of the Easter doughnut over the traditional Easter egg.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eggs don&#8217;t really have anything to do with Easter but you can attach some rich symbolism to a doughnut, he said.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re round like the stone that was rolled away from Jesus&#8217;s tomb, the tomb was empty, just like the hole in the doughnut, they&#8217;re shaped like a halo and the circle represents eternal life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0See photo and full report at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/article\/2010\/04\/04\/137881_todays-news.html\">Blessing for the Easter Doughnut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOUGHNUTS are a better symbol for Easter than the traditional egg, says a leading Tasmanian churchman. The Anglican Dean of Hobart, Richard Humphrey, said he preferred the idea of the Easter doughnut over the traditional Easter egg. Eggs don&#8217;t really &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/04\/07\/the-dean-on-doughnuts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}