{"id":17465,"date":"2010-01-22T23:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_chicago_sharing_soul_food_fellowship_and_faith\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T23:27:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:27:44","slug":"in_chicago_sharing_soul_food_fellowship_and_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17465","title":{"rendered":"In Chicago Sharing Soul Food, Fellowship and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dressed in Sunday church finery and fashionable hats, these devout Baptist women looked decades younger than their ages, 70s and 80s \u201d\u201d evidence, it seemed, of virtuous living.<\/p>\n<p>The group of a half-dozen or so gathers every Sunday after church to talk about their shared bonds: faith in Jesus, and memories of long-ago journeys from sleepy Southern country towns to the big city with its smokestacks and sirens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fellowship,\u201d\u009d said Gloria Davis, a native of the Mississippi Delta, \u201cand we remember the days.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>These women were part of one of the nation\u2019s most important periods, the Great Migration, the mass trek of blacks going north for jobs and the hope of civil rights. It has been more than a half-century since the peak of migration to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/us\/22cnccorners.html?hp\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed in Sunday church finery and fashionable hats, these devout Baptist women looked decades younger than their ages, 70s and 80s \u201d\u201d evidence, it seemed, of virtuous living. The group of a half-dozen or so gathers every Sunday after church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17465\">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":[39,42,422,100,133,154,120,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-history","category-other-churches","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465","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=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}