{"id":1614,"date":"2007-08-30T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religious_leaders_urge_lawmakers_to_let_fda_regulate_cigarettes\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T02:17:00","slug":"religious_leaders_urge_lawmakers_to_let_fda_regulate_cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Religious leaders urge lawmakers to let FDA regulate cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention says religious leaders have a &#8220;moral imperative&#8221; to urge Congress to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Land, head of public policy for the SBC, was among leaders from several religious denominations who gathered at a Nashville church today to urge members of the Tennessee congressional delegation to support such legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6996666&#038;nav=S6aK\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention says religious leaders have a &#8220;moral imperative&#8221; to urge Congress to allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes. Richard Land, head of public policy for the SBC, was among leaders<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1614\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}