{"id":13828,"date":"2009-07-09T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/political_turmoil_cancels_medical_mission_trip_to_honduras\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:16:22","slug":"political_turmoil_cancels_medical_mission_trip_to_honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13828","title":{"rendered":"Political turmoil cancels medical mission trip to Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of political turmoil in Honduras following the arrest of President Manuel Zelaya, members of St. Christopher&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Killeen have canceled their annual medical mission trip to the Central American country.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, issued a statement last week requesting that people avoid all nonessential travel to the region.<\/p>\n<p>On June 28, soldiers ousted the democratically elected Zelaya before an unpopular constitution referendum went to a vote. The referendum could have allowed the president to run for a second term, which is forbidden by the Honduran constitution. Zelaya, forced into exile in Costa Rica, vowed to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdhnews.com\/news\/story.aspx?s=34460\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of political turmoil in Honduras following the arrest of President Manuel Zelaya, members of St. Christopher&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Killeen have canceled their annual medical mission trip to the Central American country. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13828\">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":[36,48,39,50,198,66,104,243,182,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-central-america","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-health-medicine","category-honduras","category-missions","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828","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=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}