{"id":10078,"date":"2008-12-10T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/does_obama_need_to_find_a_black_church_to_call_home\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T11:04:54","slug":"does_obama_need_to_find_a_black_church_to_call_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10078","title":{"rendered":"Does Obama need to find a black church to call home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama says the historically black church moved him from a skeptic to a believer.<\/p>\n<p>He has spoken appreciatively of its vibrant worship, written about how the black church experience has moved him to tears. And he has credited black congregations for their work in helping the powerless and in speaking truth to power.<\/p>\n<p>But when he officially takes up residence in the White House, will the nation&#8217;s first black president attend a black church? And, in a larger sense, does it matter if he does or doesn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=17114\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama says the historically black church moved him from a skeptic to a believer. He has spoken appreciatively of its vibrant worship, written about how the black church experience has moved him to tears. And he has credited<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10078\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}