{"id":1578,"date":"2013-09-27T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2023-05-04T04:46:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:46:43","slug":"church-mouse-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"The Church Mouse is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he Church Mouse has more or less been in a state of hibernation for almost two years (since October 2011, in fact). <\/p>\n<p>This was a deliberate choice. <\/p>\n<p>When Melvin Llabanes was first appointed as parish priest of St Vincent\u2019s, he came with a friendly demeanour and apparent willingness to engage, offering the hope of something better than the preceding 8 years of Neocat hell. <\/p>\n<p>Despite warnings from the West (Mirrabooka and Kelmscott), and a couple of less deluded parishioners, that Melvin was not to be trusted, totally intoxicated with idealistic visions of what might be,  I chose to suspend the telling of the St Vincent\u2019s story for a while, and joined the inaugural Redfern Parish Advisory Committee in early 2012. <\/p>\n<p>On August 30, 2013 I resigned from the committee (<a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1582\">letter of resignation<\/a>), shook the Church Mouse out of its slumber and applied a fresh coat of paint.<\/p>\n<p>The Church Mouse is back; the St Vincent\u2019s story is on again &#8211; and it starts with Helen McCue&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1575\">Ted Kennedy Interviews<\/a>!<br \/>\n&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Church Mouse has more or less been in a state of hibernation for almost two years (since October 2011, in fact). <\/p>\n<p>This was a deliberate choice. <\/p>\n<p>When Melvin Llabanes was first appointed as parish priest of St Vincent\u2019s, he came with a friendly demeanour and apparent willingness to engage, offering the hope of something better than the preceding 8 years of Neocat hell. <\/p>\n<p>Despite warnings from the West (Mirrabooka and Kelmscott), and a couple of less deluded parishioners, that Melvin was not to be trusted, totally intoxicated with idealistic visions of what might be, I &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1578\"> 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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}