{"id":11709,"date":"2009-03-15T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nearly_a_year_later_obamas_still_looking_for_a_church_home\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T00:00:58","slug":"nearly_a_year_later_obamas_still_looking_for_a_church_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11709","title":{"rendered":"Nearly a year later, Obamas still looking for a church home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after a painful break from his Chicago church, President Barack Obama and his family are considering joining several churches of various denominations in the nation&#8217;s capital but have yet to settle on one, and aides said that they&#8217;re unlikely to decide before Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The delay reflects how the economic crisis has crowded out some personal considerations since Obama&#8217;s inauguration in January, but it also underscores the complexities of this personal decision by a public man.<\/p>\n<p>Past presidents have grappled with how and where to worship, but Obama&#8217;s pick is especially guaranteed to provoke interest and scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/63940.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after a painful break from his Chicago church, President Barack Obama and his family are considering joining several churches of various denominations in the nation&#8217;s capital but have yet to settle on one, and aides said that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11709\">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":[39,40,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","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=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}